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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
If you don't turn on your TV you should make sure you return your Comcast cable box because you're probably being charged at least $3/mo for it.
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
This is a lot like Google's auto-awesome videos they came out with last year. On New Year's Eve I got a push notification from Google+ on my Android phone that said something like "Happy New Year!" and when I touched it
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Hmm. You've found one of OSM's many achille's heels. You're in a part of the world that doesn't have very good satellite imagery coverage, so the only way we can map is using recorded GPS data. You can help by wande
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Can you give the search string you typed? As I mentioned elsewhere, geocoding is a hard problem, and we've certainly not solved it. We can make it better by improving the data, though. I'd love to make your search better next ti
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Try http://open.mapquest.com/
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
No, they're adding their QC resources to OSM's existing 20k+ monthly active editors and not only improving the map for their own use, but for others as well.
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Where are you? Let's make it better for you.
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Our existing geocoders don't do a great job (geocoding is a hard problem), and have an especially hard time at guessing containment in situations like you describe. One solution is to map your house using iD (the default editor when
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Routing is provided by external tools like http://map.project-osrm.com and http://open.mapquest.com/ . On a mobile device you can use OsmAnd to navigate.
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
TeleNav sells navigations apps to smartphone users. They use OpenStreetMap data for some of those apps (and presumably want to use it in all their apps), so they're interested in seeing OSM prosper.
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
The point of OpenStreetMap is that we provide the data and you provide (or you use services that provide) an interpretation of the data that's useful to you. The rendering style you picked is certainly different than Google's. Map
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Do you use a bluetooth keyboard? My wifi flakiness seems to be much less of a problem when my lid is open and I'm typing on the builtin keyboard than when the lid is closed and I'm using the Apple bluetooth keyboard. It's so
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
This, along with my wifi connection dying every hour or two (requiring a restart) makes me wish I had never upgraded to Mavericks. Link to wifi discussion: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5535320
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
More than likely the roads were traced from satellite/aerial imagery and there's no source for road names. If you're in that area you might want to use the Edit button to add the road names (it's really really easy now).
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Great, thanks. Didn't want to go to the trouble of creating an account if I couldn't use it :).
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Does it still require Silverlight?
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
As someone who sits in #osm and #osm-dev on irc.oftc.net and helps at least one person a day, I'd like to point out that the community will most definitely give you support. MapBox certainly makes it easier to pay someone, but the comm
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
There is. It happens in November every few years.
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Ever since the Telegarden [0] shut down I've had an idea like this in the back of my mind but not solid enough to give it a name or draw plans. I'm glad someone is making it happen! [0] http://www.usc.edu/dept&#x2F
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Frontline had an excellent piece on the (lack of) reliability behind most of crime forensics. Fingerprints in particular are mentioned as being very unreliable and unscientific. The only scientifically rigorous piece of "CSI" is D
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Prior to the last half of August the OSM.org style had not been touched in several years. If you're seeing problems you should file a bug on the style's Github page: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetm
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Indeed! This exact same conversation happened on reddit several years ago. The community became diverse enough that a large group of users didn't like the posts the other groups up votes to the homepage. There were initial suggestiona
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
HDMI does provide power [0], but a very small amount (elsewhere on this thread someone said 50mA). MHL provides more. [0] http://www.hdmi.org/installers/insidehdmicable.aspx
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
The HDMI connection provides 5V power.
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
This just showed up on Netflix : http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/70279456 It certainly kept my attention for an hour.
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Right, but are you proxying the API or do you have a database locally you're querying?
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Are you simply proxying the USPS API or are you making queries against data you purchased from them? If so, which data did you purchase?
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Saying it's a result of a flaw in the Mercator projection is like saying zero being undefined is a flaw of the logarithm scale: it's not a flaw, it's a property. If the projection doesn't work for your usecase, don'
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
I suggested the City of Chicago use Github because it is the only place to put open data that both (a) allows contributions back to the dataset (pull requests) and (b) allows for community feedback (issues and comments). It's by no mea
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Use Nominatim. Reverse geocode: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?format=json&l... Forward geocode: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/?format=json&q=1600%2...

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