 I hadn't visited @OpenInfraMap in a while: it's a pretty impressive custom rendering of power and telecommunication infrastructure in OpenStreetMap. If you need something new to map in OpenStreetMap, looks like lots of neighborhoods still need to have their power poles mapped! 😳 #OpenStreetMap #OpenInfraMap #OpenInfrastructureMap #OpenData #OSM #Infrastructure #cartography If you think I'm posting to that thread only old stuff and now I just do @everydoor for two years with no new ideas... I wish! Just yesterday I got an idea (and documented the plan) for an OSM championship in mapping, based on a series of two-player duels. All from inside JOSM. I know how to build it and eager to start, but ED 5.0 and server migration first. Ten years ago I had much more free time. This short video sums the idea up.  @zverik @everydoor I would love to take part in such a duel, but please without being stackenblochened by those dudes! ⏰ Today is the last day to apply to present at #StateOfTheMap (@sotm), the annual #OpenStreetMap global conference, in Nairobi, Kenya! An #EarthDay reminder that despite what governments, militaries, and oil, plastic and chemical companies would have you believe, you didn't break the world. The treat you bought yourself, your drive to work, the flight to see your aging parents. They didn't break it, and eliminating them will not save it. Individual reduction is great. It feels good, and I would never discourage it for its own sake. But individual responsibility for environmental degradation is an intentional and damaging lie.
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@ianrosewrites the greatest lie the fossil fuel companies ever convinced us of was that our personal carbon footprints are responsible for the climate crisis. “It’s not us, it’s you!” @ianrosewrites we all have to live in the world we are born into. The goal is to make it a better world for the next generation to be born into. @ianrosewrites WE, the Many Individuals, BUY the products produced by those pollution emitters. All of us are involved in this consumption of resources that have resulted in environmental degradation and the LIARS are the DENIERS! “Palestinian Relief Bundle is LIVE! $~1657 worth of creative work for an $8 donation.” Upcoming conference deadlines: 🧭 State of the Map 2024 in Kenya — 23 April (academic till 10 May) 🧭 State of the Map Europe 2024 in Poland — 30 April 🧭 EuroCarto 2024 in Austria — 24 April (looks too academic) Wow. I knew useless bots are galore in @openstreetmap, but one shouting at people who might have pressed a wrong button is new.  @zverik Interesting. Seems like a good idea to encourage people to always explain themselves, but it might be better to change the website to simply disallow re-opening notes without a comment. Sometimes I feel no matter how many things I make, no matter how many people they affect, it's not good enough and I need to do more to be recognized. Like, I see amazing work of (too many people to fit in a tweet) and sit here slightly jealous of them, getting to do such useful and influential work. That's alleviated a bit with me having been a good support for myself as much as for others — although that energy rn is too quite low, e.g. look at how I'm failing to restart OSM Awards. @zverik for what it’s worth (N=1) I think that you do all-around great work in the OSM sphere. I love what you made possible with @everydoor and think that you made the best talk about mapping ever; the one in the woods with mosquitos. Thanks for doing what you do. I've submitted another application for @NGIZero grant for @everydoor. I'm at a point when working a regular job feels like a loss to myself, OSM and OSS world. Looking for funding to focus on my multiple geo-related projects, but that's near impossible. As Guillaume told me at the last SotM, hiring me for what I do is impossible to justify. Mostly because it's not a single super-useful project. Like xz. So... you know, I keep writing good stuff on 4 hours a week I got. @zverik @everydoor We are NLnet Labs, who develop #OpenSource software for core Internet infrastructure, such as #DNS and #BGP. The NLnet Foundation, who fund projects, uses the @NGIZero account. It's a bit hard to track indeed — like when I started listing all my conference talks, I got over 100 entries, all with different topics. When I tried listing my software for an about page, I barely fit the most prominent things in a screen and had to remove much. So in this thread, I'll try mentioning geo-adjacent things I did in the past 13 years. One thing daily. As a self-recognition practice. That's gotta get me through a couple months at least.  Getting employed to "do what just happens to cross my mind" is quite rare, typically you need to have a Noble prize or similar associated with your career to get that kind of position. Just because there is some marginal usefulness of what you just thought up for society, doesn't mean that society is obliged to pay you for it. If your product has actual value, then there is always the time honoured avenue of selling it, just like every baker, farmer, artist etc. has to do . Spent two days on moving my old Ansible-scripted server from Ubuntu 16 at DO to 22 at Hetzner. Everything broke, of course, but not only I fixed all that, but also improved my backups so that I can restore the entire server with a single command now. Not something I could show to the world, but I'm quite proud. Did anybody by any chance run a city-wide project to inventorize cycling roads and lanes? Which tools were most useful for that? (Planning to do that this year, and so not wanting to write everything from scratch)
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 @zverik . @ane did it for a whole country: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02632 (an improved version published very soon). Interactive: https://felt.com/map/Bicycle-Suitability-wQNXCYmhTgWELdKRgCZ9AWA?loc=56.9294,14.9957,8.59z Issaaanddddd eesti keele kirjutamine on nii raske ma ei taha aga ma pean õppima ngggghhhh Without understanding what exactly we make, we cannot understand what and how to map exactly. Is @openstreetmap a map? A database? In a recent discussion I speculated it is maybe something else: https://shtosm.ru/all/ne-baza-dannyh/  @zverik @openstreetmap some nice points. I've always thought that if OSM is a database it's really 400k (or however many contributors there are) little databases all merged (munged ?) together. Each one with subtly different rules, semantics etc. Normalisation, of course, doesn't work because, other than a bit if context from editors, the actual rules reside in the heads of users. Downpour is soo good I open it every day, either to play games or to make my own. It's poetry. Check out my first game, made when waiting for my kid: https://downpour.games/~zverik/environment Still feels surreal I made "ee-us" keyboard layout work in KDE/Wayland. I can type äüšö with the right Alt and also not lose typographic symbols like «»↓↑€. A proper solution would be to fix https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478152 but I'm not that skilled in KDE. A new version of OpenStreetMap Tags Editor, 1.2, went live today. It's a plugin for Firefox and Chrome to edit tags right from the osm.org website. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_Tags_Editor We have pages for movies and TV series on the OSM wiki, but what about games? I was very surprised to see the @openstreetmap website in "Life is Strange" (chapter 4). I wonder where exactly is that place... @zverik @zverik Zoom on Linux installs into 652 megabytes. 652. Over half a gigabyte. Zoom. Yes, that video calls app. @zverik |
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@alan @OpenInfraMap Wow, never seen this before! If it had raster tiles they could be included as a map layer on OSM.org
@alan @OpenInfraMap Wow, that's cool! Just learned that apparently there is a 110kV line just 10m from my couch. 😅
@alan @OpenInfraMap Also, if you switch on the "Telecoms" layer in the layer selector (in the toolbar on the right, last icon) you can see some submarine cables and many telecoms towers. Looks like this kind of equipment is very under-mapped as well, though.