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by rmc 8y ago
I think 4½ billion euro is enough for Google sit up. This isn't a "pay and forget fine". If they don't change in 90 days, they are fined 5% of their revenue every day. That's a lot.
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by rmc 8y ago
Small fines don't work. Large fines get attention.
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by rmc 8y ago
> use OSM data in their product OSM has a share-alike clause, which would require G to share all their own data with everyone.
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by rmc 8y ago
Is that a big problem for you? The OSM operations working group is run by volunteers, on semi-donated hardware. They don't offer SLAs, they don't offer uptime guarantees. If you create an app that's (say) responsible for a 20
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by rmc 8y ago
The OSM website includes tile servers which render the tiles that are on https://www.openstreetmap.org
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by rmc 8y ago
There are OSM tileservers.. that's what you see when you go to https://www.openstreetmap.org . You are encouraged to host your own tiles if needed.
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by rmc 8y ago
Overpass turbo is a great tool, but it's not in the same category as a geocoder like nominatim. Overpass is for querying OSM objects, not parsing addresses.
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by rmc 8y ago
If OSMnx splits each way into sequences of "node N to node N+1", then the results are based on the number of node-node connections, not the number of ways.
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by rmc 8y ago
Oh to have an empty area to map!
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by rmc 8y ago
if you/lots of people have call a merchant a lot to cancel, then it doesn't matter. If the bank/credit card companies get lots of calls about one merchant, they might tell the merchant to get it's act together or risk hi
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by rmc 8y ago
The EU's new data privacy law (GDPR) allows you to withdraw consent, and "it must be as easy to withdraw consent as to give it". A perfectly clear and powerful way to describe what is wanted. "It must be as easy to cance
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by rmc 8y ago
It's called "Growing the Beard", with Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine getting better around season 3. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GrowingTheBear
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by rmc 8y ago
> As a current user of gmail this worries me. Have you looked at moving off gmail?
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by rmc 8y ago
Turning OSM into, essentially a view of local governments would remove the wiki aspect, where anyone can edit it. Additionally, there is enough problems getting the global OSM community to come up with one tagging scheme. If every country m
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by rmc 8y ago
There are numerous "open data" licences, many of which are totally incompatible with OSM. CC-BY 4.0 in this case isn't straightforwardly importable into OSM (you need to get them to sign a waiver). So that's one reason t
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by rmc 8y ago
Yes they could. The OSM licence requires a share-alike, so OSM would be able to use anything Apple add, but all that's required is a database dump. It would be up to the OSM community to "merge" it back in if they wanted.
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by rmc 8y ago
With code you need to be able to programme. For OSM you just need to know something about an area. Do you know what the name of that street is? That there's an italian restaurant on that corner? What the house number of that building i
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by rmc 8y ago
Yes, I'm sure the social welfare system in San Francisco is better than England.
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by rmc 8y ago
I think the USA has (a) much more homeless people and (b) much less buses than random places in the UK. (I remember reading a stat from ~5 or 10 years ago that San Francisco had more homeless people than England).
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by rmc 8y ago
Microsoft has allowed the OSM community to trace from Bing aerial imagery for almost 10 years now. That's been a massive benefit to OSM, way more than this dump of buildings. They should be congratulated and thanked for that contributi
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by rmc 8y ago
One of the example Rails applications they use is the code which powers the OpenStreetMap website. They populated their install by randomly filling in fields on the website. Which doesn't include any map editing! For OSM they suggest c
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by rmc 8y ago
You could do business with places in the EU, where you are covered by EU's stronger data protection law. If an EU based company do stuff with the personal data of US citizens in the US, then the GDPR (etc) applies to that EU company.
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by rmc 8y ago
It's "Ireland" not "Eire"
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by rmc 8y ago
Plenty of that happened in US backed, and funded, regimes in Central and South America.
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by rmc 8y ago
> can't remember the last time I saw a British flag being burned by an angry mob Maybe in Northern Ireland? Though it's mostly the British buring Irish flags...
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by rmc 8y ago
Employees wouldn't have to keep one eye on their CV and plan for the next job if employers treated employees better and gave them long term security & oppertunities.
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by rmc 8y ago
There's PeerTube software, which is self hosting, and people's browsers use in-browser bittorrent to share video amoung people who are watching the video. Blender have set one up: https://video.blender.org/
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by rmc 8y ago
3.1% is about 1 in 30 people. That's not that small. And this isn't 100 years ago, I'm pretty sure people in Vermont have seen a black face on TV/film.
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by rmc 8y ago
If it doesn't occur to you that there are black people, or you are too lazy to test against then, then that is racism.
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by rmc 8y ago
It's not new. MS allows the OSM community to trace from Bing aerial imagery since 2010! And from 2007 till 2011 Yahoo allowed tracing from their aerial imagery. These have been very very helpful to OSM. https://wiki.openstre

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