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7y ago
You can get in touch with your local community to see what the current hot topics are. https://community.osm.be/ should hopefully have it.
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Good luck for your meeting! They might have at least georeferenced source files, no? You might have an easier time convincing them to work with you if you point out that this is the best and easiest way of getting the location of the mine f
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7y ago
You've never stepped on an UK plug at night, have you?
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7y ago
It would be interesting to include the great open databases of our time - Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, AllTrials, various national open data portals...
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7y ago
In the EU, a GDPR data subject request will get you all the data you want.
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7y ago
If you'd like to do this and aren't comfortable giving your work away without getting anything in return, you can try right now: https://mapillary.com which gives you free access to everything you've uploaded. All
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7y ago
Obviously, you haven't read the article and have no idea what it's about.
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7y ago
Look at the Vietnamese alphabet, which is basically hacked together from Portuguese, colonialism, a massive amount of diacritics and bits of French. The most common surname in Vietnam, for example, is Nguyễn, with both a circumflex and a ti
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Some museums do claim to impose copyright terms on simple digitalisations of public domain works. It is a ludicrous claim they mostly get away with: it completely goes against the idea of public domain, and claims creative protection on a w
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7y ago
Shimano makes bicycle parts, not bicycles. Giant sells bicycles, and some of them come with Shimano parts.
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Getting a valdid certificate with letsencrypt is, once you’re a tiny bit familiar with certbot, a matter of minutes.
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7y ago
It’s an old Polish tradition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto
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7y ago
This was written in 2013, when https://www.openrailwaymap.org didn't exist.
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8y ago
My announcement email has a short summary: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2019-Jan...
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8y ago
Direct link to report (PDF) https://openstreetmap.lu/MWGGlobalLogicReport20181226.pdf
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Investigating unusual member signups close to OpenStreetMap foundation election
(lists.openstreetmap.org)
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I cycled the Vennbahn cycle path this summer. Sometimes, the only way you can tell what country is on the side of the road is by the shape and colour of the postboxes.
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8y ago
It’s hard to believe that $9000 + 50 hours of labour + time spent planning would be worth less than trading in the car for a new one.
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8y ago
This, unfortunately, is slowly going away. The Home app in the new macOS, which has been ported over from iOS, is unusable if you don’t know how to two-finger-tap.
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8y ago
The Luxembourg ones are perfectly well-known data centres.
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> The United States routinely has health care prices well-above the rest of the country. Above the rest of itself?
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My heartbeat “stops” every time I take my watch off to charge it.
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8y ago
Same for me on Chrome 68.0.3440.106, macOS 10.13.6. Clicking on the other faces does nothing.
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8y ago
I have one from the original crowdsourcing campaign, with an audio dock. Interference makes the sound quality is so bad it's unusable for any practical purposes. Support was useless. http://forum.vocore.io/viewtopic.php
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8y ago
Hi from the OSM data working group. Please don't do massive imports like this without discussing them first with the local community, and the global one if there's no significant local one. The impact from the massive Facebook edi
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That's why HSTS preloading is what you want to achieve. We've recently added openstreetmap.org and it was a fun project to make sure that everything would properly reply over https.
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8y ago
You can save another 7.6% on that png by passing it through advpng+pngout. ImageOptim is fantastic for this: https://imageoptim.com/mac
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It sounds like they just trained a bayesian filter like langdetect to recognise simple German. A smarter training corpus would have been decrypted Enigma messages! A decrypted enigma message looks like this: BOOTKLARXBEIJSCHNOORBETWAZWOSIBE
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There’s a Luxembourg province in Belgium, right next to the country Luxembourg. Nobody gives a damn.
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There was AlterNIC, it didn’t have a lot of success.
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