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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Keep in mind that WikiMapia is breaking Google's terms of use and they don't release the data they collect. It's a neat project, but completely orthogonal to OSM.
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by yellowbkpk 13y ago
Keep in mind that OpenStreetMap is a data project, not a maps.google.com replacement project. There are plenty of other ways to look at OSM data. https://tiles.mapbox.com/newmap and http://maps.cloudmade.com/editor let you style the dat
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
Has anyone other than OP actually seen this in the wild? None of the systems I know about on Comcast here in Chicago have had HTTP manipulated at all today. Maybe they're not doing it here because the 250GB bandwidth cap is "temporarily sus
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
Two key differences here: 1. The data is now available under the MIT license. This is important because (a) it is a predictable, well-known license that allow businesses to interact with the data without fear of the unknown (license) and (b
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
The only issue is that with huge data dumps (the buildings dataset here as GeoJSON is ~2GB uncompressed and ~1GB as shapefile) it becomes difficult to make direct pull requests against the data. Indeed they zipped the JSON file up before up
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
Your website doesn't work: Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects.
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
Thanks for your constructive feedback. When I was searching for suggestions I didn't see any way for people to submit changes to the released data back to the organization releasing the data. Getting community feedback is what they cared ab
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
See my response below [0], but one of the main reasons they did this with GitHub was to try and make it easier to take user contributions. They know their data is wrong and they want help fixing it from the community. As a contributor to Op
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
As the person that convinced them to use GitHub, I suggested it to them because they were looking for an extremely easy way to bring changes from the community back in to the city's data. I suggested GitHub and GeoJSON because I envisioned
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
For those of you interested in purchasing one, DealExtreme has ~500 of them here: http://dx.com/c/735 Features include GPS, SD card recording, auto loop recording, auto-record when powered, stop when unpowered, accelerometers, or compass.
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
At least Google's process has a bit more benefit than Facebook's: you can see the location data they collect from your phone by turning on Latitude and its history app. They also use this data to improve traffic and map data and (if you hav
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
I think you're seeing package.json and leaping to Node.js. I think they use the Node package management to help during build.
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
This started happening about 1.5 years ago on AT&T. Any smart phone that AT&T "knows about" will get a ~$30/mo smartphone data plan added the moment you insert your SIM card into it. You'll get a text message ~30 minutes later sayin
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
... by siphoning it through their startup.
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
I'm asking them the same question. I backed this as an android user looking to charge my power hungry devices. The iPhone compatibility was secondary for sure. I was willing to be patient while they figured out the lightning plug thing and
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
The pixellation here is your phone waiting to download the higher-res vector tile. While it waits for the higher-res tile it draws a bitmap representation of the lower-res tile "above" it.
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
While it's true that there are "plenty" of map data providers, there are _very few_ that deal with wide swaths of the world. Navteq and TeleAtlas were the go-to providers for worldwide coverage, but you've seen what TeleAtlas data looks lik
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
I remember way back in 2006 or so when Meraki was a startup trying to sell the hardware units geared towards community wifi systems. A short time after getting the units out into the community they 'pivoted' away from that model and started
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
We used ormlite on Android for at least one project. It worked extremely well and the developer was very receptive/reactive to bug reports.
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
Have you played OpenTTD? http://www.openttd.org/en/ It focuses on transit, but it's an excellent game and very open ended.
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
Speaking as someone that wrote some code that interfaces with the Magicshop API, it works nowhere near as good as described in the video. It's a simple color matching algorithm that gets easily fooled by trees and dry grass. The project is
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
After seeing tons of videos detailing the tools Google uses for their maps and using Google Map Maker, the OSM tools are much better at empowering the mapper to create map data. OSM might not have the computer vision tools or the Street Vie
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
To be clear, the license has not changed yet. We're in the process of changing the license (and they recently announced [0]) that the next full-planet data dump will be under the new license, but it hasn't been switched yet. [0] http://blo
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
Yes, but when you first activate you have to go to the store and convince them to activate a SIM card (or just buy the cheapest phone if they won't budge). Since T-Mo hasn't spun up their 800MHz spectrum yet you won't get 3G on your iPhone,
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
This just about covers you (search for "Great for video chat, streaming music/movies/TV, playing online games, and more"): http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans You still get 100 minutes of talk, but you get unlimited texts
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
By creating the GTFS file format and convincing dozens of municipalities to use it, they basically did create an API. Except the transit organizations are running it and Google's using it to draw people into their products.
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
There is an IMMENSE amount of stuff to observe and learn about this boring part of Mars. Geology, water formations, rock formations, sand composition, atmosphere, etc. Imagine if you lived on another planet and sent a probe that landed in t
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
This isn't the bug tracker. It's a forum for support. Someone should file a bug here: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list Once they do that, you can "star" the issue. The Chrome team can sort their bug lists by "number of stars"
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
I imagine they bought wunderground for the Personal Weather Stations. They have thousands of people sending them data in real time from their personal weather stations. I bet if someone were to quickly make an equivalent API that collected
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by yellowbkpk 14y ago
A tip after poking around: when you're on the page where you select how many tickets you want you can click on a hidden "By Section" link and pick your section instead of having it selected for you. I was able to pick up a couple first row

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