Yaayyyyyyyy!!! Almost excited that I'm reaching the final miles of ~4GB worth of map data that I collected on a specific trip from last(!) year
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Yaayyyyyyyy!!! Almost excited that I'm reaching the final miles of ~4GB worth of map data that I collected on a specific trip from last(!) year
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Today I saw a Grab's KartaView vehicle in my local city!
Mohd
😢 Preaching to the choir but apparently it's true that some opportunists scrape Maxar's key for OSM editors, for their own selfish purpose. Yeah, Maxar is not a charity anyway, their core business is indeed remote sensing. https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/maxar-satellite-imagery-use-in-osm/105754
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But then again OSM's data is not mainly tracing from imageries. Thanks to many creative (and thoughtful) OSM-linked developers, at least there's apps for collecting map data. Probably without satellite background layers.
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What is the "sandbox" OpenStreetMap instance? Someone is doing (unfortunately) some test edits, and I want to point the map editor over there instead.
Thibault Molleman🇧🇪 🌈🐝
@AkuAnakTimur i don't think there is one. Osmf can only afford to host the real instance. Let alone a test instance
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@AkuAnakTimur There's the dev sandbox, https://dev.openstreetmap.org where one can request for an account and play with the data, usually for software development, but with a dev account, you can configure (certain) editors to point to https://master.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org as server.
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I forgot to take a picture of a Here Maps car which sat under a tree opposite to my workplace...
거윈
@AkuAnakTimur They're waiting for a certain #OpenStreetMap|per who works in a building across the street. 😆
Mohd
And today the keyboard finally gave up after 5 years in use (and once or twice, getting infested by ants). Probably a break from mapping as well, because I rely a lot on JOSM and certain keystrokes to speed up things. Oh well.
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Today is the day StreetSide on Bing Maps decided to respond to the tapping of arrow keys...
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Microsoft Bing StreetSide is not co-operating well... and a thunderstorm is brewing outside. Later! 😭
Mohd
Ah perfect. Saw toots mentioning Bing StreetSide. I'm here just to complain about it, because suddenly it had some trouble loading even in the iD editor. Microsoft, gee... reusing the same keystroke (Shift + Comma) to invoke its StreetSide layout (it's also is used to call upon Mapillary street level imagery plugin) in JOSM. Pure genius moment.
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Double decker buses are great to gather mapping data. Just make sure you managed to grab the front seat on the upper deck, wish that the bus driver travels at a slow pace, gather all the data you think you want (and somehow piqued the next seat passenger about your slight eccentricity) et voila! It's been a year plus, and I'm still mapping that map data...
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And yeah, while fixing Meta's machine learning data along the way too. That's from 3+ years ago. At least Apple Data Team isn't making it worse over this part of the world. Fun.
Amᵃᵖanda 🌼
@AkuAnakTimur I have a StreetComplete preset for the sort of quests you can do while looking out a car/bus
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"Let's name our restaurant Thai Food Near Me, like, you know, mentioned in Google Maps" "Huh, our place went viral on Reddit and (what was) Twitter" https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23931825/google-search-local-seo-thai-food-near-me-maps
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Oh dear! Some honest new mappers may not realise it's not 100% OK to take whatever made available from the Big Gee (of Alphabet)... probably the iD editor should display something noticable enough to actually advice some kind of this new mappers? I don't use iD much, some warnings may show up during saving map changes... some dialogue boxes could actually remind them, maybe?
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That would explain why a certain housing estate had unnamed streets but now, it's hardly to see which is still unnamed...
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Yeah, Google. One-Way Street (Jalan Sehala), you mean, this? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jalan_Sehala.png
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Your geodata, somewhat modified with QGIS, then uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, etc, and later made it into OpenStreetMap... is suspicious. There's no way the original source allows any kind reproduction without permission - if it's not the case, then I'd like to see your proof that you have explicit permission doing so. I mean, if you got it from some website - still doesn't really cut it.
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PMTiles as a data source for the JOSM MapWithAI plugin
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Just realised this bit when I had to view TomTom's 360 street level panorama courtesy of Bing StreetSide - on a separate browser window. iD editor's Bing Streetside panel was too small for my liking.
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@AkuAnakTimur Why do you think they're calling it "Grab Taxi"? I remember them marketing their commercial geodata as GrabMap.
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Google Open Building hates circular buildings apparently
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pmtiles is absolutely magic
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One of the place data from Overture Map dataset: "my room, my place to catch some z's"
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US' TIGER data is apparently published by the US Census Bureau (with a ® too).
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I knew I was falling so behind - the Department of Statistics Malaysia apparently has an official dataset of administrative boundaries... maybe time to write something asking them if it's okay to use these precious data to improve OSM (their website says all published data in their repo is open source - licensing is holy moly legalese beast) |
@AkuAnakTimur
Street-level Imagery?