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by sabas_ge 8y ago
I actually like Thunderbird since when I discovered MRC Compose extension[0] which provides a UI similar to Outlook in the To, CC and BCC fields. Having to input one by one the email addresses is troublesome in my use case (lots of addresse
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Costs of using Google Maps(medium.com)
33 points by sabas_ge 8y ago|21 comments
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
That's the Mapbox way. /s
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
I think that they wouldn't use only satellite imagery, but gps data from the fleet and user reports. See also https://qz.com/1481849/grab-southeast-asias-biggest-ride-hai...
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
There's also the implication that without OSMF affiliation you can't edit the map, which is wrong.
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
Because the location provider from Play Services is an alternative to having the GPS turned on and gives an approximate location. There are some replacements like this by Mapzen https://github.com/lostzen/LOST
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
So "sue yourself" is american english while "suit yourself" is british? Sorry I'm not a native speaker...
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A free printable map of the world in Equal Earth projection(equal-earth.com)
1 points by sabas_ge 8y ago|0 comments
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Jeff Bezos defends spending his Amazon billions on space travel(theverge.com)
1 points by sabas_ge 8y ago|0 comments
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
I realized I commented with another account, so I guess I'll post again...
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UK address data: a primer and bibliography(owenboswarva.com)
1 points by sabas_ge 8y ago|0 comments
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
In Italy now I pay €5.99 / month with 30 GB of traffic (plus unlimited calls). free.fr came in Italy (branded as Iliad) and changed the market.
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
You can act as proxy like WheelMap does (upload the edits on behalf of the users), but you must then be reachable when some edit is wrong.
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
Just to point out that the Apple talk was not recorded due to the company wide policy. (I was at SotM) On the FB import you still think of the first import, but after that they worked a lot with the local communities.
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
In what area? OSM data cover lots of use cases. For navigation on Android check out Maps.me or Osmand.
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
I prefer when I tweeted CopernicusEMS during the 2016 earthquake... http://emergency.copernicus.eu/mapping/sites/default/files/f...
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
I wonder if there's also @Anonymaps on HN...
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
I was talking to a colleague today and I made that example I remembered from my physics course done on the Halliday-Resnick textbook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentals_of_Physics
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
>Broke, no. And waste of resources. But broke no, thanks €!
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
The italian entry for the bridge was semiprotected as soon as the news broke, but now I see there's a enwiki standalone entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
It's the biggest port in Italy, and 63rd worldwide. The population increased when the big public industrial complexes were active, now it's declined.
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
Known unknowns etcetera :)
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
I removed it as soon as I got the news. First thing is to have the routing software updated and handle the emergency. I live in Genoa ad I work in a logistic company, and I'm an OSM contributor since 2011 :-)
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
Next year is in Heidelberg from 21 to 23 September!
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
The base is Openmaptiles ( https://openmaptiles.org ), to build from osm data you'd need to spin the infrastructure from docker. I posted the link to maptiler because in other threads people were looking for a simpler cloud i
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MapTiler: Map overlay, cut map tiles for Google Maps, GIS layers and mobile apps(maptiler.com)
153 points by sabas_ge 8y ago|45 comments
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
At work I switched from Outlook 2013 to Thunderbird, we only have linux mail servers although we run Windows on clients, but I needed to access an Exchange email. I solved it by installing Davmail locally, which translates exchange commands
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by sabas_ge 8y ago
Have a look at this page for alternatives https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Search_engines Pelias is the product from Mapzen (rip)
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Italian Wikipedia has obscured all pages against the EU Copyright Directive(it.wikipedia.org)
6 points by sabas_ge 8y ago|0 comments