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Ilya Zverev

I don't have Mastodon on my phone — thankfully — but I do post some photos and thoughts to my Telegram channel: t.me/foss4g_ru. It's in Russian, but I believe Telegram has a translation button.

Also, a reminder that #sotmeu has a live streaming ticket for just ten euro: pretix.eu/sotm-eu/2023/

Ilya Zverev

I had a free hour and made a parser: now you can have #sotmeu schedule on your phone! Plan which talks to attend, know what's happening around at the moment!

sotm.osmz.ru/sotmeu2023.html

There are some QR codes: for Giggity app on Android and for the Calendar on iPhones. For Giggity, you might need to paste this url if the QR scanner does not work: sotm.osmz.ru/sotmeu2023.xml

It updates once an hour, so any changes will find their way to your phone.

Screenshot of Giggity app with a SotM EU 2023 schedule for Saturday
Ilya Zverev

Join the chat on #sotmeu! matrix.to/#/#sotm-eu:matrix.or

11 people there right now, should be a hundred!

(And also follow and use the #sotmeu hashtag here)

Ilya Zverev

56 people now! Great success! Now for fifty more :)

Ilya Zverev

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.

Ilya Zverev

Why of course I spent an hour and a half walking around the hostel and updating the map. #sotmeu

A screenshot of Overpass Turbo highlighing all venues with check_date=2023-11-09 tag
Ilya Zverev

Rain non-stop in Antwerp. Bring an umbrella. #sotmeu

Simon Poole

@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.

Ilya Zverev

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.

Ilya Zverev

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 :)

Rihards Olups

@zverik @everydoor @sotmeu
I have a major problem with an approach like that.
If I do it, I have excellent ideas - but I forget some of them by the time I get to writing them down.
And I recall them after the talk is over :/

Ilya Zverev

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.

Ilya Zverev

So with everybody suddenly mentioning @protomaps, I've finally made my first vector tiles map (for my job): osmz.ru/mosaddr/

Interactive map with a satellite imagery on background, some addresses starting with "ulitsa Akademika Anohina" labelled, and a popup open with properties and identifiers for "ulitsa Akademika Anohina, dom 9". There are zoom buttons, a filter field, and a disclaimer box that mentions that the data was downloaded from the Moscow Open Data Portal.
protomaps

@zverik

1. Edit in Every Door
2. extract the area using docs.protomaps.com/guide/getti

24-hour turnaround for running your own updated vector tiles with no databases or servers is pretty good, right?

Ilya Zverev

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.

Chart titled "Mapping days per year". Has low years 12-14, 19-21; and high years 10, 11, 15-18, 22-23.
Ilya Zverev

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.

shtosm.ru/all/podarok-proektu/

Ilya Zverev

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 :(

Ilya Zverev

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: ilya.zverev.info/about.html

Come chat in Antwerp, or write me now :)

Ilya Zverev

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.

github.com/Zverik/speaking/blo

Of course I'm open to public speaking invitations :)

Rihards Olups

@zverik The point when you get to needing a separate repo to track it, hehe :)

Ilya Zverev

A long write-up on tagging forest paths and how highway=path tag differs from highway=footway.

shtosm.ru/all/tropinki/

(now to close thirty tabs and breathe out)

Ilya Zverev

I've finally set up some sponsor accounts!

* github.com/sponsors/Zverik
* liberapay.com/zverik/

Planning to do a Patreon as well, would be nice to write occasionally about things I do.

I don't believe in donations since I see the same people giving and receiving them, essentially zeroing out in total. But if it would cover my donations and servers, that would be awesome, one less thing to worry about.

Thanks to @redauburn for becoming the first sponsor, before I knew it's open!

I've finally set up some sponsor accounts!

* github.com/sponsors/Zverik
* liberapay.com/zverik/

Planning to do a Patreon as well, would be nice to write occasionally about things I do.

I don't believe in donations since I see the same people giving and receiving them, essentially zeroing out in total. But if it would cover my donations and servers, that would be awesome, one less thing to worry about.

Harry

@zverik you're welcome 😆 thank you for all the work you do!

Ilya Zverev

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.

Ilya Zverev

The original a18z techno manifesto or something is too long, so I read the abridged version, that doesn't lose any of the meaning.

bengrosser.com/files/Techno-Op

(Thanks to Ben Grosser and @todayintabs)

Heavily redacted document, leaving the words: "Accelerating", "We believe in accelerationism", "To ensure the techno-capital upward spiral continues forever", "We believe the techno-capital machine"
Ilya Zverev

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.

zverik.github.io/point_ed/
github.com/zverik/point_ed

#gischat

GeoJSON Point Editor screenshot. Shows a few controls and two points, one of which is labelled "first point".
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