M!dgard's Comments
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| Sakumaps v2 | I use OsmAnd for note-taking: @M!dgard/diary/391761 In OsmAnd you can even make audio notes if you enable the “Audio/video notes” plugin. In Configure Screen, you can enable a custom shortcut button so you can make a note fast. |
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| The WW1 Western Front demarcation stones | Update: I didn’t hear back from them, alas. |
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| A brief guided tour of the highest tag counts and version numbers in Belgium | Update: the climbing gym now has 69 tags (nice) and so has third place in the category of “nodes/ways in Belgium with the most tags”. |
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| A brief guided tour of the highest tag counts and version numbers in Belgium |
The number suffix scheme is also established and documented on the wiki. Values (and keys) in OSM cannot be longer than 255 Unicode characters. While in this case concatenating the values gives only 147 characters, an object with 7 images or more wouldn’t be able to fit in a single tag’s value. The authors of the editor software with which the images were added, decided to go with the number-suffix scheme. |
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| Multiple user accounts in JOSM | SherbetS: yes, that would be even better. Changing the preferences file while JOSM is running does not work, though. (Hence the check at line 25 to avoid nasty surprises.) Let me know if you find a solution! |
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| Multiple user accounts in JOSM | The script also launches JOSM. If you’d rather use the script to just switch profiles, and then manually start JOSM, you can simply remove the last line. |
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| Multiple user accounts in JOSM | mmd: To keep my settings when I switch between accounts. |
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| The 2021 OSMF Survey of the OSM community has been activated | apm-wa, the GDPR mandates certain information be present if personal information is collected (such as who processes the data and for what purpose). An email address is collected, and hence the form is not in compliance with European law. However, I was able to complete the form with a disposable address from https://www.guerrillamail.com/, which both meant it was not a huge deal for me and that the protection will not stop actors who know about such services. I do not share marc__marc’s other concerns about the dissemination of the invitation, but as a fellow Belgian mapper I do not think he is trying to troll you. |
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| Mapillary and Facebook - Combining our open mapping efforts | philippec is using this argument time and again. And as I have said time and again, I provide alternatives to Mapillary so that no-one will die. |
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| Mapillary and Facebook - Combining our open mapping efforts |
Those don’t lure people into sharing their life with them, or worse, harvest people’s data without their consent. The only way they do that is by writing articles that people read willingly, not by tailoring . Sure, they do have power, and we see it being misused, but there’s still a more healthy competition there, so this is not the same as Facebook.
Yes, that’s indeed not the worst part.
If Facebook wasn’t present, another platform might very well have taken this role. Maybe even a more ethical one.
“They also do good things.” You can say the same of a lot of dictators about whom people still aren’t happy. |
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| Mapillary and Facebook - Combining our open mapping efforts |
Thanks a lot, gitouche! I downloaded my images that weren’t wiped yet, and I added a link to your repo in Exit Mapillary’s README. |
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| Mapillary and Facebook - Combining our open mapping efforts | A quick introduction to Facebook: Facebook is a company that is built on learning as much data about people, in order to effectively manipulate them. Their business model is offering this manipulation as a paid service in such projects as advertising, and influencing voting. It’s a verifiable fact that they are able to follow you around vast portions of the web. It’s a public secret that they have shadow profiles about people without an account, and that deleting data is impossible. They ignore and lobby away regulations that should protect users. Facebook is not one to welcome. |
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| Mapillary and Facebook - Combining our open mapping efforts |
No, I forgot to make it public when it was ready. Fixed now, thanks for the heads-up! |
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| Mapillary and Facebook - Combining our open mapping efforts | Because Mapillary doesn’t make it exactly easy to delete your photos, I wrote a small program to help you do that: https://framagit.org/Midgard/exit-mapillary Since Mapillary doesn’t seem to allow downloading the images in full resolution outside their web app, I didn’t bother writing a downloader. |
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| Mapillary and Facebook - Combining our open mapping efforts | Very disappointing. The all-seeing Facebook gains yet more control. I propose that we all thank Mapillary for the service these past years and find somewhere else to put our photos. |
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| Announcing Daylight Map Distribution | Good job on achieving compliance with section 4.4 of the ODbL! |
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| Quickly adding lots of notes with OsmAnd | Following up, here’s how to add personal survey notes. You can now avoid uploading them and instead view them all in JOSM: @M!dgard/diary/391761 |
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| Mapping infrastructure worldwide with OpenStreetMap | You’ll probably be interested in this slippy map by Russ: https://openinframap.org/. |
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| Belgian Mapper of the Month : Matthieu Gaillet | If you don’t like the tone on talk-be, I suggest you never subscribe to the tagging list. At times, talk-be feels like coming home in a happy, embracing family after reading tagging :p |
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| Improving the OSM map - why don't we? [10] |
I think you forgot to finish your sentence? |