 Tested SketchMapTool by @heigit, from the recent grant news. Printing a map works fine, GeoTIFF referencing works as expected (from a file, not a scanned copy). Still, nothing new over https://fieldpapers.org/ Was intrigued with its vector detection. The resulting GeoJSON was incorrect (not WGS-84 and polygons are wrong), but QGIS reads it. Scribbles are imported as polygons, so there's not much benefit over GeoTIFF. Try it here: https://sketch-map-tool.heigit.org/ I so much want just a year for working on my unfinished projects! A map editor, a public transport app, two more useful apps, restarting OSM Awards and one other thing, the new PostGIS-OSM tool, maybe even starting a book on OSM I've postponed for three years... Like, you know what I've done and can imagine what I would. Why do I need to devote my life to corporates instead T_T This article on mobile mapping and first steps in OpenStreetMap is pretty good: https://gnulinux.ch/mitarbeit-bei-openstreetmap-viel-lesen-um-alles-richtig-einzutragen-oder-fang-einfach-an (in German) Planning to organize a BoF room on mobile mapping at @sotmeu (hey @streetcomplete) and maybe a lightning talk on @everydoor. Come join! Buy your tickets now: https://pretix.eu/sotm-eu/2023/ Huh, TIL that you can autofill tags from the Name Suggestion Index in @vespucci by choosing an autocomplete item from the "name" tag value. Somehow Android development has run itself into a dependency hell. There is a Gradle, Gradle wrapper, Kotlin Gradle Plugin, Android Studio itself; they have a complex compatibility matrix, plus modules have their own dependencies... Argh. Already published iOS beta, but waiting for another Gradle distribution to download to get the next share of build errors. And yes, all these libraries and SDKs take more than 10 GB, already ran into out of disk error once. Today was musing again on how best to make the cycleway map I plan to do, and suddenly came to an idea that might change the landscape for open source field data collection. (Only after I got that Every Door grant of course: needs one feature from its roadmap.) Π‘Π΅ΠΉΡΠ°Ρ ΡΠΈΡΠ°Π» Velonation ΠΏΡΠΎ ΠΈΠ·ΠΌΠ΅ΡΠ΅Π½ΠΈΠ΅ ΡΠΈΡΠΈΠ½Ρ Π²Π΅Π»ΠΎΠ΄ΠΎΡΠΎΠΆΠ΅ΠΊ ΠΈ Π²ΡΠΏΠΎΠΌΠ½ΠΈΠ», ΠΊΠ°ΠΊ Π² 2020 Π³ΠΎΠ΄Ρ Π΄Π»Ρ ΠΌΠΈΠ½ΡΠΊΠΎΠ³ΠΎ Π²Π΅Π»ΠΎΠΎΠ±ΡΠ΅ΡΡΠ²Π° ΠΏΡΠΎΠ΅Ρ Π°Π» ΠΏΡ. ΠΠ΅Π·Π°Π²ΠΈΡΠΈΠΌΠΎΡΡΠΈ Π² ΠΠΈΠ½ΡΠΊΠ΅ ΠΎΡ Π½Π°ΡΠ°Π»Π° Π΄ΠΎ ΠΊΠΎΠ½ΡΠ° ΠΈ ΡΠΎΡΡΠ°Π²ΠΈΠ» ΡΠΏΠΈΡΠΎΠΊ ΡΠ΅ΠΊΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½Π΄Π°ΡΠΈΠΉ Π΄Π»Ρ ΡΠ»ΡΡΡΠ΅Π½ΠΈΡ Π²Π΅Π»ΠΎΠΏΠΎΠ»ΠΎΡ ΠΏΠΎ ΠΎΠ±Π΅ΠΈΠΌ Π΅Π³ΠΎ ΡΡΠΎΡΠΎΠ½Π°ΠΌ. ΠΠ΅ Π΄ΡΠΌΠ°Ρ, ΡΡΠΎ ΠΎΠ½ ΠΊΠΎΠΌΡ-ΡΠΎ ΠΏΠΎΠΌΠΎΠ³. ΠΠΎ Ρ ΠΎΡΡ ΡΠΎΡΠΎΡΠΊΠΈ Π½ΠΎΡΡΠ°Π»ΡΠ³ΠΈΡΠ½ΡΠ΅. ΠΠ°ΠΊΠ°Ρ ΠΆΠ΅ ΠΊΠΎΠ»Ρ ΠΎΠ·Π½Π°Ρ Π²Π΅Π»ΠΎΠ΄ΠΎΡΠΎΠΆΠΊΠ° β ΠΌΡ ΠΏΠΎ Π½Π΅ΠΉ ΠΏΠΎΠ»Π³ΠΎΠ΄Π° Π² ΡΠΊΠΎΠ»Ρ ΠΊΠ°ΡΠ°Π»ΠΈΡΡ. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v7q1p1mkBmjwXSAKchLZOG9NGbvDLXc1tMIzzqGjXo8/edit Wrote about @tracestrack for Shtosm: https://shtosm.ru/all/tracetrack/ Looks nice and feels fast, good job! This study on LLMs using the "how do I steal a duck" question is as amazing as it is thorough: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/ducks Looking at an interview roadmap for a bigtech company, and I'm pretty sure the sheer size and intimidation of it turns skilled people away from these companies. You need a specific mindset to participate on either side of this, one that prioritizes tech over anything else. Their "what's next" emails even contain multiple page-overview on "how to succeed" with a dozen links and 40 bullet-points. I am absolutely sure there was a D&I complaint identifying the issue, and the only way they could solve it is by adding guidelines for helping interviewees train better. Which is wild and kinda highlights the issue, not solves it. I've worked at a bigtech company and have seen how D&I suffers. "We had a goal to have more non-white employees, so this year 70% of our unpaid interns were from minorities! FTW!" D&I is always a top management problem. I cannot be fixed from the bottom.  @zverik A very interesting take. Is that just the interview phase, or the onboarding phase? ΠΠΊΠ»ΡΡΠΈΠ» ΠΏΠ°ΡΡ Π΄Π½Π΅ΠΉ Π½Π°Π·Π°Π΄ Π΄ΠΆΠ°Π· (Π²Π΅Π΄ΡΠΌΠ° ΠΎΡ ΠΌΡΠ·ΡΠΊΠΈ Hiromi ΠΏΠΎΠΏΠ°Π»Π° Π² Tiny Desk, Π½Ρ ΠΈ ΠΏΠΎΠΊΠ°ΡΠΈΠ»ΠΎΡΡ) ΠΈ Π²ΡΠΏΠΎΠΌΠ½ΠΈΠ», ΡΡΠΎ ΡΡΠΎ Π΅Π΄ΠΈΠ½ΡΡΠ²Π΅Π½Π½Π°Ρ ΠΌΡΠ·ΡΠΊΠ°, ΠΊΠΎΡΠΎΡΠ°Ρ ΠΏΠΎΠ²ΡΡΠ°Π΅Ρ ΠΌΠ½Π΅ Π½Π°ΡΡΡΠΎΠ΅Π½ΠΈΠ΅. ΠΠ°ΠΆΠ΄ΡΠΉ ΡΠ°Π· ΡΡΠΎ Π²ΡΠΏΠΎΠΌΠΈΠ½Π°Ρ, Π½ΠΎ ΠΏΠΎΡΠ΅ΠΌΡ-ΡΠΎ ΡΠ»ΡΡΠ°Ρ Π΅Π³ΠΎ Π²ΡΠ΅Π³ΠΎ ΡΠ°Π·-Π΄Π²Π° Π² ΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΡ. Finally my impromptu @foss4g talk on maps in games got published: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgsQbdg96LI Six games and few observations on how game maps differ from real ones and at the same time follow the common conventions. And on ways to get inspiration for your own maps. Yes, I connected my Switch to the projector β didn't bring my laptop to Kosovo. Video recordings for Baltic GIT Conference (it's for geospatial technology) room 2 are up! All the SotM Baltics 2023 talks and many other GIS-related. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkvzAel8ISD3SA9zxy5oD8acd1gpPmmr7 Learn how bots manage addresses in Latvia, and one person validates all of Lithuania! Cheer for @openstreetmap with a beginner mapper! Enjoy people telling success stories of open source GIS in teaching and enterprise businesses! #gischat Just read the specs and a Chris Holmes' blog post on #geoparquet. A few years ago we were choosing the best geo-column format for processing in Parquet files, and found WKB the fastest one (compared to WKT and lon,lat columns). Turns out, we were making a GeoParquet database without knowing it! I so miss teaching OSM and OSM-related stuff. If anybody wants, I can do a webinar (or come, if you're in Latvia / Estonia) on virtually any OSM- or open geodata-related topic. @zverik would you be interested to mentor some students from Bangladesh on their ideas for disaster hackathon? This week @openstreetmap is facing the largest vandal attack ever. More than 7000 accounts made too many edits defacing street and amenity names in Russia. Huge thanks to DWG, OWG, and individual mappers for dealing with this.  @openstreetmap Thank you to everyone working on dealing with this. Such a pointless annoyance  @zverik giving a vandal additional airtime and exposure is not a good idea, regardless how well intended it is. Had a great day programming yesterday, made a single-page tool for comparing and reviewing geojson geometries one by one. Too often this comes up in my work. #gischat Added colored markers and properties display for another task I'm doing now. Really proud of the tool, lets me assess how things look on the map relative to each other, and not just analyze differences numerically in postgis. |
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