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@kkarhan @nbossard @hisdeedsaredust @colinstu No the result is basically the same. Trap streets are incompatible to OSM. If you instead ask mappers if they could have a look at the stuff they mapped and compare them to Google most of them should be able to tell if the data originates from their data and thus #Openstreetmap or not.
They do not in my case, I just checked.
So please stopp spreading the conspiracy theory that Google is using our data. There is no case we know about. @nakaner @simon

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@CoMaps Very excited to see where this goes! In future posts, you might benefit from including hashtags so as to be caught by people unfamiliar with your org but interested in what you’re working on, such as #navigation, #maps, #OpenStreetMap, #community, etc. Without the algorithms present in corporate social media, discovery on the Fediverse is significantly strengthened by explicitly tagging relevant fields and interests!

So…I wrote a script to send messages to #OpenStreetMap users en masse.

I’ve been using and refining it for many months. It has progress reporting, and it automatically waits and resumes when it hits the API rate limit…I’ve used it to send mapping party invitations to thousands of users.

I’m also planning to extend it, so it can…

  • …send messages to people in or around specific areas
  • …send messages to all users who have clicked “Attend” on an OSM Calendar event
  • …send messages to new OSM users
  • …send messages to OSM users who have made their 10th edit.

Should I release it as freedom-respecting software? (a.k.a. libre or “open source” software) [1]

On one hand, it could be used for spamming users.

On the other hand…

  • It’s very handy for mapping party invitations. We’ve been able to reach out to so many people thanks to this script. OSM DMs are also sent to users’ emails.
  • Even if I don’t release it, it’s not like someone else couldn’t write their own such script against the OSM messaging API…
  • If used for spam, there’s a button to mute/block users on OSM…and the operations team @osm_tech could just ban the spammers.
  • It’s written in a rather unpopular language (Common Lisp), which could - I’m guessing - also deter spammers. Currently, it can only be used from a Lisp REPL, not a UNIX shell. (I could always implement a shell interface too…but for interactive use, Emacs + SLIME blows any shell out of the water.)

I guess there’s also a third way - make it a private repo and give read access to the code to established members of the #OSM community on request.

[1] Probably under the AGPL…let me know if you recommend a different license.

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A recent study by the DC Office of the Chief Technology Officer explores how well residents in Washington, DC can access essential public resources by foot. The isochrones analysis was based on our routing tool openrouteservice. The isochrones were generated using the openrouteservice API, which calculates walking catchment areas around public assets.
More: heigit.org/use-case-measuring-

does anyone happen to know a good osm (preferably web based) editor, which is good for lines, and optimised for cellphone? Think roads, paths, flower beds...

i tried iD, the default editor on the osm website, but didn't properly work on phone. mapcomplete is a very nice tool, but explicitly for POI's and not lines.

I assume most mapping of such things happens using air pictures or gps traces. but with current day phones, I believe some things could be done easier with a good editor.

#openstreetmap

Holidays are over...

Had a blast #bike riding the millevache area (FR).

I did a lot of "unplanned rides" (i.e. without a pre-determined route), as I really love this exploratory way to discover an area.

And for that, #comaps app (comaps.app) was really useful.

It's open-source, offline capable, and it's a very decent front-end over #openstreetmap data

www.comaps.appHike, Bike, Drive Offline Navigate with PrivacyDiscover more of your journey -<br/>Powered by the community

Einzeichnen eines Garagengebäudes in #OpenStreetMap: eine Minute Arbeit. Mit sorgfältiger Arbeit ist eine Genauigkeit im Zentimeterbereich kein Problem.

Fortführung des Liegenschaftskatasters (selbes Garagengebäude), Genauigkeit ebenfalls im Zentimeterbereich: 552 Euro für die Vermessung und 125 Euro für das Kataster-Update beim Landkreis. Ergebnis? Ein schlichter „Auszug aus dem Liegenschaftskataster“ auf DIN-A4-Papier gedruckt.

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@nbossard @kkarhan @hisdeedsaredust @colinstu It is not necessary to add invalid stuff to #Openstreetmap and will likely not work anyway because someone will sooner or later fix the bug. But mappers usually know enough real objects which are unique to #Openstreetmap. This is why I do not think that Google is using OSM for anything but QA. In most cases OSM where has been used verbatim without attribution mappers found exactly such objects to proof this.

#OpenStreetMap è la mappa creata dalle persone, per le persone.

Migliaia di contributori locali in tutto il mondo la mantengono aggiornata, che si tratti di un sentiero di montagna o un caffè nascosto, è probabile che sia stato aggiunto da qualcuno che conosce la zona.

Molte app come #CoMaps sfruttano questi preziosi dati aperti per offrire una navigazione anche offline, mappe che funzionano ovunque, in qualsiasi momento sono elencate su scegli.app

Gruppo open: @opensource@diggita.com

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@colinstu @kkarhan Geeks and nerds like Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Apple, Grab, TomTom, Lyft, Niantic, a coiple of national mapping agencies OSGB🇬🇧, IGN🇫🇷), numerous local administrations in many countries. #OpenStreetMap is at the heart of many hiking and cycling apps too (Komoot, RideWithGPS, AllTrails ..).

tl;dr lots of people use #OpenStreetMap, but often they dont know thats where the data comes from.