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Ilya Zverev

Booked my stay in Antwerp at Yust hostel: 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 € for five days.

Joost Schouppe

@zverik @sotmeu haven't stayed there myself, but both their brunch and their fancy dinners are awesome

Thibault Molleman🇧🇪 🌈🐝

@zverik
That's also where I'm staying. Although I did go for just a bed in the dorm 1 night)
@sotmeu

Ilya Zverev

Here's a useful thing for people who write command-line OSM processing scripts in Python:

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.

Ilya Zverev

I chose a wrong time to leave my job, it seems. Still.

Daniel

@zverik What are you looking for? Maybe the fediverse can help! 😊

Ilya Zverev

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 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: sketch-map-tool.heigit.org/

Map of a Saku town area printed with SketchMap. There are pink and green drawings on it.
Screenshot of QGIS with scribbles detected by SketchMap.
HeiGIT

@zverik Hi, thanks a lot for testing our tool and getting in touch! In our next project phase, we will also work hard on improving the SMT, so your feedback helps us a great deal 🤝

We want to encourage our followers to test our tools and reach out to us for suggestions and constructive critique! 👍

Greetings from Heidelberg!

Ilya Zverev

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

Ilya Zverev

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: pretix.eu/sotm-eu/2023/

Ilya Zverev

Huh, TIL that you can autofill tags from the Name Suggestion Index in @vespucci by choosing an autocomplete item from the "name" tag value.

openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPo

Ilya Zverev

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.

Ilya Zverev

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.)

Ilya Zverev

Сейчас читал Velonation про измерение ширины велодорожек и вспомнил, как в 2020 году для минского велообщества проехал пр. Независимости в Минске от начала до конца и составил список рекомендаций для улучшения велополос по обеим его сторонам. Не думаю, что он кому-то помог. Но хоть фоточки ностальгичные. Какая же колхозная велодорожка — мы по ней полгода в школу катались.

docs.google.com/document/d/1v7

Изогнутая велодорожка, нарисованная по тротуарной плитке, у северо-западного входа в парк Челюскинцев в Минске
Ilya Zverev

This study on LLMs using the "how do I steal a duck" question is as amazing as it is thorough: dynomight.substack.com/p/ducks

Ilya Zverev

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.

Ilya Zverev

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.

Rihards Olups

@zverik A very interesting take.
And on the other side, people spend a lot of energy creating those programs, websites and other tools to make newcomers feel welcome.

Is that just the interview phase, or the onboarding phase?

Ilya Zverev

Включил пару дней назад джаз (ведьма от музыки Hiromi попала в Tiny Desk, ну и покатилось) и вспомнил, что это единственная музыка, которая повышает мне настроение. Каждый раз это вспоминаю, но почему-то слушаю его всего раз-два в месяц.

Ilya Zverev

Finally my impromptu @foss4g talk on maps in games got published: youtube.com/watch?v=qgsQbdg96L

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 — didn't bring my laptop to Kosovo.

Nintendo Switch lying on grass, with a map from Lego City Undercover on the screen.
Ilya Zverev

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.

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkv

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

Ilya Zverev

My @foss4g talk on getting POI from @openstreetmap is online! Thanks to the team for following through!

I am really proud of this talk, given it's a rare case of me giving a repeat one. Went almost perfectly. Alas the sound is bad, so I have made subtitles — click the "CC" button near the video settings. And you can auto-translate them into your language!

The talk is about the real world and how maps can't reflect it perfectly. It's super useful, watch it! #gischat

youtube.com/watch?v=WQwO-vbGre

My @foss4g talk on getting POI from @openstreetmap is online! Thanks to the team for following through!

I am really proud of this talk, given it's a rare case of me giving a repeat one. Went almost perfectly. Alas the sound is bad, so I have made subtitles — click the "CC" button near the video settings. And you can auto-translate them into your language!

Ilya Zverev

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!

Ilya Zverev

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.

Nirab Pudasaini

@zverik would you be interested to mentor some students from Bangladesh on their ideas for disaster hackathon?

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