TomH's Comments
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| Why are we creating a design system for OSM? | I don’t think so - as far as I know there’s nothing at the moment other than a proposal to try and get people to give them money to recruit a whole team of people to build something. Hopefully any potential funders will ask how likely any result is to be used before they agree to send them a whole load of cash. |
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| Why are we creating a design system for OSM? | Maybe you shouldn’t say that this “will be the design system of OpenStreetMap” before you’ve actually got any sort of agreement on that? |
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| How to format the API key in headers for Speakatoo integration? | What’s speakatoo and what does it’s API have to do with OpenStreetMap? |
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| 38 Crammond Place, Perth | There’s a 1972/3 map on NLS when they appear to be newly built that seems to confirm it never existed. Maybe they originally planned to have one more on the end after 37 so left space for it in the numbers but then changed their minds? |
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| Alice Springs Library | Test failed |
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| Test note | Test failed. |
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| Test | Test failed. |
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| Overture Maps at State of the Map Europe 2023 | Guillaume literally said “we’re open to communication, call us” right there in Marc’s talk! |
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| osm-revert: A faster and smarter way to revert changesets on OpenStreetMap | Is point and click reversion really a good idea though? It sounds like it will just encourage edit warring… |
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| Test | Test failed |
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| Searching Diaries | I’m reluctant to tie things to specific third part services like that, both from a reliability point of view and because it means we’re blessing one service over others. |
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| Searching Diaries | Well ruby is not really the issue - it’s not like somebody is going to write something that reads every diary entry from the database and searches the content using ruby. Well I mean somebody could write that but it would never get merged. So the issue is the need for efficient free text indexing/searching of diary entries, which is very much a non-trivial task. Meanwhile your favourite internet search engines are quite happy to search “site:openstreetmap.org diary index” for you so there are easy workarounds. |
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| test | Test failed - account will now be closed for attempted injection attack in your username. |
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| Monitoring Tile Servers with Fastly healthcheck status | I’m not sure I agree that StatusCake wasn’t enough - it had in fact alerted when pyrene stopped responding which was the root cause of the problems and we just hadn’t noticed that. That’s why I pulled the StatusCake results into prometheus so that we would get repeating alerts if they aren’t resolved rather than just a one off alert. The healthcheck results are also on the Tile CDN Dashboard now as well. |
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| My terrible experience of registering on openstreetmap.org | If the page came up in English then that means your browser was not configured to request the correct language as we use the Accept-Language header it sends to choose the correct language automatically. You should not need to confirm the email address if you signup via Google and the password is also optional in that case. Literally the only thing you need to do on that form is choose a username. |
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| Test | Test failed. |
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| test | Test failed |
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| . | Maybe you could edit this diary entry to actually have some meaningful content so people stop reporting it as spam? |
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| UX/UI Concept: Your Business on the Map | Yes and that is exactly the problem - people expect us to provide the same sort of advertising style business listings as Google but that is not something we have any intention of offering. Mostly it’s not actually the business owners, it’s whatever bargain basement SEO shop they’re using this week that submit the information - the real problems start when the next SEO consultant comes along and starts complaining about the “business listing” the previous one created (which usually turns out to be a note) but of course they don’t have the details of the account the first consultant created. |