Gregory's Server
Tomorrow and on Thursday I'm in Brussels, visitng @europarl_en . Anyone from the city wants to meet for a beer / tea? :) My phone is +37255574267.
 overpass turbo now has a new "wizard" to style results using MapCSS. More on my OSM diary at https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/tyr_asd/diary/405486  
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  @tyr @fiete Wesentliche Aufgaben: Events mit Text, Link und Foto sortieren nach #MappingTheWaterCrisis  A mindblowing set of images of what the flood in #Valencia looks like from space - images of the same region from 8 and 30 October (I've been to the area, this is scary): ▶️ https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/10/Valencia_flood_disaster image credit: USGS, processed by #ESA  
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@vicgrinberg I was chatting with a good friend who lives in Catalonia about this earlier today, and he mentioned that the river there was diverted south some years back, and then the former course / floodplain extensively developed (roads, houses etc.). He said even at that time there were people saying it was a mistake, and that while this recent rainfall in the mountains was unprecedented, it was probably just a matter of time before something like this was going to happen.  Of all the things to over-engineer and over-build, seawalls should be first in the list. TIL there is an SCP entry for the Null Island: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8601 #gischat In face of the challenges of @wikidata’s rapid growth, let’s embrace the SNAIL approach to editing: Slow, NArrow, In-depth, Local.  Half-way through https://infrequently.org/2024/10/platforms-are-competitions/ by @slightlyoff I realized that yes, just this week I published an app that basically wraps around a popular estonian website, making it faster and easier to use on a phone. Opening a website in a mobile browser, I always get that moment of dread that it has randomly-breaking javascript in it. State and focus are things of the past there. Also, in case anyone is counting, Starlink is now 63% of all active satellites. 2 out of ever 3 satellites up there now are owned by that awful billionaire. He effectively controls Low Earth Orbit. That should terrify everyone.
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 @sundogplanets A website has been launched in Sima 🎬the best site to watch foreign movies and series for free and without ads📢   LLMs are what w3w were for GIS enthusiasts. Now everyone gets to experience our frustration with a harmful technology endorsed by governments.
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  Recently there was an OSGeo Slovenia conference, and I had an honour to participate online, with a pre-recorded talk instead of flying there and going on stage. My talk was about Every Door and StreetComplete, and what they can teach UX-wise (lol) proper grown-up surveying apps. Here is the talk with subtitles: Show Me The Way is great, but it's mostly good for showing geometry changes. I wonder if there's anyway to show some of the deeper #OpenStreetMap data? Rather than “Here's a building being drawn” how about “$PERSON added the opening hours to this shop” etc…   @amapanda , for tag changes you could show a popup (tool tip like or so), and leave it up for a couple of secs it takes to animate the geometry (it is likely to be quite irritating for changes made with mapcomplete et al though).. Me in the mid-1990s, to people thirty years older than me: "This is called a 'file' and this is a 'website'. Let me explain..." Me in the mid-2020s, to people thirty years younger than me: "This is called a 'file' and this is a 'website'. Let me explain..."  @ncdominie @blogdiva I swear, people in their 30s are probably the youngest people who still know how to use a computer… A murderbot stamping on a human face forever. scott f: This dystopic scene of identical robocars clogging an entire block to carry maaaybe 1/4 of a busload of people, was posted by a waymo employee who thought it made his company look good. Mike Sims:...  @jwz "We've reinvented traffic jams! We just need 50 billion dollars and a decade of research to finish..."  Alright folks on BitWarden, looks like they are speedrunning Enshitification and moving to proprietary clients and servers, so now is the time to backup/export your credentials and look around for alternatives. I personally use NextCloud Passwords and NextCloud OTP Manager, but that is not a security endorsement, just what I chose for my family.  @Brett_E_Carlock I wasn’t able to attend the #OpenStreetMap Foundation AGM last night because I had a whole-day affair and the AGM started at midnight my time, but I found the Chair’s less-than-positive report by @grischard, um, interesting: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Stereo/diary/405356 (I also know that an outgoing [unnamed, but it’s not hard to find if you know where to look] Board member has already posted their thoughts on Mastodon, LinkedIn, and Facebook hinting at the problem.) @zverik @simon Exactly! e.g. Vespucci for new buildings and paths and such, StreetComplete for random contributions on the go, etc. 99% of contributions I made with StreetComplete would have never existed without StreetComplete. I wouldn't bother e.g. opening Vespucci to check if stuff is properly tagged. But also: vast majority of stuff I added with Vespucci would have never been added if Vespucci hadn't existed, as I wouldn't bother sitting in front of a computer to add stuff from home. |
