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by rmc 8y ago
And since Creative Commons have a non-commerical licence, which is similar in aim to this. Plenty understand that as "CC-NC"
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by rmc 8y ago
> the Schengen countries (This is almost the whole EU minus the UK). FTR Ireland is not in Schengen either. But it shares a land border with UK, and one country joining Schengen and the other not would be a silly idea.
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by rmc 8y ago
Yes, those are tourist industries, no surprise there's a lot of English. But the tier one customer support for a large teleco, or a bank? They probably aren't requiring fluent English for that.
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by rmc 8y ago
I don't know about GNU, but OpenStreetMap has a licence where bits kick in if it's used externally, and it defines it as: "“Publicly” – means to Persons other than You or under Your control by either more than 50% ownership o
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by rmc 8y ago
According to most of people who invented the term "open source", the OSI and their open source definition, propritary software, even if you can see the source, is not "open source". Nearly everyone uses the term "op
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by rmc 8y ago
A CLA is basically a simple as you describe. It's just that some people (how many?) don't want their contributions to be ever closed source and might not agree to that term. Worse case, they fork your project, applying their chang
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by rmc 8y ago
One advantage of selling "200kps burst to 50Mbps": When tender for software that's the spec you give. "Your software must work in these cases". Otherwise software will be tuned to what you say you had ("50Mbps&
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by rmc 8y ago
Start off looking for a job. They could help you work through the visa issue, and most people need a job to live somewhere.
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by rmc 8y ago
I wonder how much of that is language related? Plenty of people around the world speak English (with varying levels of skill and with various dialects). But not many speak German.
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by rmc 8y ago
EU law requires no roaming rates, so there places outside France (and in the EU) which would be covered by the 100GB a month rule.
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by rmc 8y ago
It's very common in UK for pharmacies to print digital photos (and in the past, develop films). German drug stores also have this service.
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by rmc 8y ago
> It shouldn't be too hard to find or introduce the proper tags There's lot of people mapping such details in OSM already: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dtree
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by rmc 8y ago
Compared to the UK, the German car industry is doing fantastically.
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by rmc 8y ago
> It's similar to how Netflix would never exist had it started out today, because no studio would surrender their back-catalogs to them for pennies. Netflix: "The Goal Is to Become HBO Faster Than HBO Can Become Us" ht
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by rmc 8y ago
> Considering Germany is an economic powerhouse this law probably isn't harming the economy. Not only a good economy, but it still has industrial output. There are plenty of big German car companies. It's not just "serv
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by rmc 8y ago
> I know that "when it's free I am the product" but the problem is that this is not very obvious when you buy a device. If you buy a device, then it's not free!
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by rmc 8y ago
Not "always". But you should not build your systems based on the assumption that passwords will be strong enough.
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by rmc 8y ago
It's a workplace, not your personal video game club.
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by rmc 8y ago
Time to start mapping yourself! You'll be able to put things on the map. Just keep mapping, persistence will pay off.
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by rmc 8y ago
There are ways to map things indoors, like corridors, stairs, and shops/facilities inside large buildings (eg. train stations) https://openlevelup.net/
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by rmc 8y ago
> It's a great data set, but it'll probably need some curation. Some sort of crowd sourced, geo database... ;)
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by rmc 8y ago
Well if you don't like the OSM.org tile usage policy, they'll give you a full refund. OSM.org doesn't prohibit commericial usage, per se. But if you're running a business, you shouldn't rely on volunteers from anoth
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by rmc 8y ago
Lots! Mapbox.com ThunderForest.com Geofabrik.de
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by rmc 8y ago
The OpenStreetMap.org website doesn't ban commerical sites (per se). The volunteer sysadmins who manage the donated hardware that runs the OpenStreetMap.org website don't offer any SLA and reserve the right to ban people/apps
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by rmc 8y ago
If you use vector tiles, and render them client side you could do this. For raster tiles, where you're storing images, there are too many images to do this practically. And then you need to think of how to do data updates. OSM updates
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by rmc 8y ago
> Would it be possible to use a local copy of OpenStreetMap database, not paying for API calls? Yes, plenty of people do that. Be careful "OpenStreetMap API" is only for editing. There is other software in the OSM ecosystem w
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by rmc 8y ago
> What does this mean? How did Apple Maps use it? It's not true. Ish. On openstreetmap.org there's servers that render the map data into the images you see. That's run by volunteers, on mostly donated hardware and hosti
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by rmc 8y ago
> In addition, there seems to be no obvious way to suggest missing destinations. That's strange. I just checked Maps.me on Android, and if you open the hamburger menu there's an "add a place to the map" option.
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by rmc 8y ago
> I still have to understand openstreetmap mapping solutions. It's named open, not free, so I guess providing your own server with osm data would work. Only with FreeStreetMap the data would be infected also. I'm not sure wh
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by rmc 8y ago
The logic is that the terms (that google wanted) are unfair and bad for the free market.

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