Gregory's Server
Huh, Kevin Bullock was laid off from Maxar. First the imagery is gone, now their best employee too. I wonder if they are shutting down.
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Why of course I spent an hour and a half walking around the hostel and updating the map. #sotmeu  @zverik expected (why do you think I'm not turning up before Friday afternoon) and typically umbrellas don't help as (because location) it is always going to be at least a bit windy. When I lived nearby (aka AMS) we simply resigned to being wet. Failed to get @NGIZero grant for @everydoor development next year :( Looking for other options... Look for the lightning talk at @sotmeu to learn what's planned! Super useful stuff, both for volunteer mappers and for orgs like @hotosm. I even used today one of these for mapping, that I've enabled on my phone just for the demo. My talk is on Sunday (first thing in the morning after the Saturday's social event: if you miss it I'll haunt you), and I don't have a single slide. Was sitting all day with a block, and then went outside. Walking through the woods, I suddenly narrated the entire talk, start to finish, loud and clear. And it was fun! So now, to slides, and rehearse it ten more times. The lightning talk on @everydoor future is already prepared: no slides, just some cool ideas and a demo. See you at @sotmeu :)  @zverik @everydoor @sotmeu So I'm trying to make Google Maps support staff add a few missing addresses to the map of Moscow, Russia. Just now they wrote me: unfortunately we cannot use interactive maps for sources. Both the official cadastre map and the official address registry are interactive maps. They won't budge. Screenshots won't do. Moscow addresses on Google Maps remain patchy and obsolete. Thank god today is my last day on this job. So with everybody suddenly mentioning @protomaps, I've finally made my first vector tiles map (for my job): https://osmz.ru/mosaddr/ 1. Edit in Every Door 24-hour turnaround for running your own updated vector tiles with no databases or servers is pretty good, right? Usually people map in OSM a few years, and then their activity falls to near-zero. I had three peaks: joining OSM, working for Maps.Me, publishing @everydoor. I wonder what the next peak in 3-4 years would be. Few words on that 150k gift from Microsoft. Thank you Microsoft, and thank you all conference organizers! I live from conference to conference here, and without you, OSM wouldn't have anything to look forward to. Uber tells me I've cleared the bar and they want me in Amsterdam. Would've been amazing news if I wanted to move and work at my 4th ride-hailing corp :( I'm finally open to helping you with geospatial projects! In three weeks, right after @sotmeu, my job is over, and I'm looking for a new one. Full-time or a project, doesn't matter. I love geospatial R&D, UX, open licenses; know my way around PostGIS, Python, and Flutter, and learned a lot more from my 30 years of programming and writing. Look here for more: https://ilya.zverev.info/about.html Come chat in Antwerp, or write me now :) Phew. So you know how I absolutely love presenting at conferences? I've finally got to making a huge list of all my appearances. Definitely missed some, but still, 91 talks! More than I expected. https://github.com/Zverik/speaking/blob/main/README.md Of course I'm open to public speaking invitations :) A long write-up on tagging forest paths and how highway=path tag differs from highway=footway. https://shtosm.ru/all/tropinki/ (now to close thirty tabs and breathe out) My point on #30DayMapChallenge is, with enough insight, any map is a bad map. (And any map is a good map at the same time.) Funny or useless doesn't equal bad. The original a18z techno manifesto or something is too long, so I read the abridged version, that doesn't lose any of the meaning. https://bengrosser.com/files/Techno-Optimist-Manifesto-Andreessen-redacted-by-Grosser.pdf (Thanks to Ben Grosser and @todayintabs) Was looking for a thing in my repos, and found a GeoJSON point editor I made three years ago. Suprisingly fun! Use it when you need to quickly populate a points table, or edit something. It's got filtering and proper copy-pasting. Doesn't lose non-points from imported files and saves edits to a local session to prevent data loss. https://zverik.github.io/point_ed/ Booked my stay in Antwerp at Yust hostel: https://www.yust.com/antwerp/ Looks very clean and private, reviews are exceptional. Half an hour walk (or a very short tram ride) from the @sotmeu venue. Just 200 โฌ for five days. Here's a useful thing for people who write command-line OSM processing scripts in Python: https://github.com/Zverik/cli-oauth2 Authenticate with OAuth2 in one line of code. Stores tokens permanently, doesn't require you to do anything else. Just updated my Simple Revert and OSM to Sandbox scripts to use it. |
@zverik isn't this just the fall out from the carving up that was announced post sale https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/03/maxar-completes-6-4b-sale-to-private-equity/