Imagine tapping a link and seeing Every Door turned into a specialized tree collecting app, with taxonomy and rendering and presets.
Imagine scanning a QR code for a task in FMTM and your ED app shows the task boundaries, limits presets to features you need to collect, and shows a short manual on the process.
Imagine overlaying a mall plan before going in for indoor mapping.
Imagine surveying features to your own PostGIS server.
Imagine tapping a link and seeing Every Door turned into a specialized tree collecting app, with taxonomy and rendering and presets.
Imagine scanning a QR code for a task in FMTM and your ED app shows the task boundaries, limits presets to features you need to collect, and shows a short manual on the process.
Last Sunday Latvian OSM community (in the massive numbers of two for this event :) ) created streetview images for the Ķīpsala (literally - bale island) region of Riga.
Do you like some remote mapping for relaxation? These fresh images could allow to add a lot of detail.
@richlv I had a plan to make a video explaining how to pretend you're surveying with Every Door while actually looking at Mapillary at home. Maybe somebody else could record this :)
FYI, Cheap electric cars from China won't solve anything. More cars, won't solve anything. Electric cars are still cars. Autonomous cars are still cars. Cars won't solve anything, no matter what some rich fuck told the other rich fuck.
sharing the two links i mentioned during the game engine panel… they r invaluable resources & if i’d choose just two resources for where to find alternative tools, these would be it… the game engine database: https://enginesdatabase.com tiny tools directory: https://tinytools.directory
Also, when I gave Cory an elevator pitch of what's going with @openstreetmap foundation rn, he said it was pretty common for organizations like ours. So maybe we should consult with @eff for options.
Almost finished "The Lost Cause" by @pluralistic . Very inspiring — not that I agree with everything, but still, too many good ideas.
One of the actors there are a Maga group that opposes settling refugees, calling them "freeloaders and losers and whiners". Which sounds ironic because in the book, those Magas are all those things, not working, but hindering builders.
People can't help telling on themselves if you just listen.
Which made me think... I'm blaming OSMF for things I'm guilty of.
Had a lady in her 70s say to me something along the lines of "Could you sit down with me one day and explain that Open Map to me, how does it work, how does on access it?" today. She means #openstreetmap , of course. There is hope yet.
@zverik it is a tough one, yes there are some legitimate uses of bulk downloading, but most of the tiles are never viewed. If we accept bulk downloading it will have an negative impact on others seeing fresh tiles, which is a particular concern during vandalism. We should make a clearer metric for the served fresh:stale ratio. EU week daytime hours have a very poor ratio. With some development effort the tile service could have a way to be told the request is bulk, changing render/caching logic.
I'm a "full stack developer", in that my stack is full and if you try to push any more tasks on me I'm gonna overflow it and start corrupting my own memory
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📌 If we run out of tickets then this doesn't mean you've totally lost your opportunity to join the conference! We'll certainly keep you updated about available tickets that might pop up if some people cancel.
@richlv@zverik i think a "strong OSMF" means two things:
* there is still a ton of interest from organizations of all sizes looking to interface with OSM as consumers and mappers. They want someone to talk to, and OSMF should provide that. Maybe an "executive director" or "biz dev" type person. This is the void that Overture is starting to fill.
* support for mappers. Set up/seek partnerships for imagery, importable data, tools
* bonus third thing: raise money to dump into these things.
So rn OSMF has a) no power, b) no money. They look like they do, but trust me on this. I argue for more power and more money, which some people in the community oppose. Because "support, not control" was there from the start, for a chance that some large corporation will influence OSMF for its nefarious goals.
And indeed, most funding would come from big corps. It's inevitable.
Yesterday @pluralistic outlined how exactly this anti-community steering happened to @w3c :
But if you think that's the reason for not going corporate, consider that right now the controlling already happens — corps keep thousands of mappers on a payroll, publish editors like Rapid and surveying tools like Mapillary, upload ML-detected roads and buildings and steer the community into thinking those kids of imports are okay.
Powerful OSMF would keep that influence at bay, not amplify it. Well, I wish :)
@zverik I'm not sure how you can get money and be able to control the companies... Surely corporations would be the main income source. If you then throw your weight around, they won't want to give you money...
May 8, 6PM: Prima Vista Literary Festival keynote, "Overcoming the Enshittocene," University of Tartu Library (Struwe 1)
May 10, 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, "AI, copyright and creative workers’ labor rights" Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building (Lossi 3, lobby)
May 10, 3PM: A talk for hackers on seizing the means of computation (University of Tartu Delta Centre, Narva 18, room 1037)
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I'm coming to Tartu, Estonia!
May 8, 6PM: Prima Vista Literary Festival keynote, "Overcoming the Enshittocene," University of Tartu Library (Struwe 1)
May 10, 8AM: Science Fiction Research Association talk, "AI, copyright and creative workers’ labor rights" Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures building (Lossi 3, lobby)
@pluralistic omg omg omg! I live in Tallinn but will definitely come for the last one! Been reading your newsletter for a year and I love how your thoughts extend my understanding of nuances on many things.
Do you know if the hackers room will be open to public, or just students?
@akshatrathi, but they need that AI money to buy carbon offsets!
@akshatrathi
And that demand isn't driven by users, but by other companies that see it as a marketing boost.
@akshatrathi what AI “demand”? I didn’t demand any of this, leave me alone with your 8 copilots -.-