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TL;DR: The canary channel of Windows contains some references which hint that Windows will become a subscription instead of an upfront sale.

Ok! I'm now waiting for my web-app to ve verified.

Is there a mailing list I can subscribe to for new features?

Hey @presson,

I signed up as dev to get my webapp listed. I stumbled upon your priced plans, and was wondering what a 'direct download link' is and why I would pay $10/month for it.

A PWA is nothing more then a glorified web site, which opens full screen.

Security-wise, they cannot do anything worse then a website can. In other words, this is _less_ then a native app can do.

Such a niche map is something that is very hard to pull of. You need a community of millions to contribute geodata, so if such a map is not based on OpenStreetMap, it is destined to whither after a few years.

But, don't fret. This is precisely why I made https://mapcomplete.org, where you can create niche maps based on OpenStreetMap. This jumpstarts general information but has the possibility to add very niche questions. The added bonus is that, when you add e.g. a cafe, it'll be available in all other maps as well.

For this topic, I've added a filter to filter on 'has internet access'. I also added the question if a cafe offers electricity, but those haven't been marked in NYC yet; so here is a map with all cafes offering internet access: https://mapcomplete.org/cafes_and_pubs.html?z=9.8&lat=40.697...

Browsing can be done without an account, contributing requires an OSM-account.

For those who want to help out with adding all public toilets to OpenStreetMap: I made a website to make this easy: https://mapcomplete.org/toilets

You can see all toilets without an account and add a missing toilet or update information with a free/libre OpenStreetMap-account. Adding information also means it'll get picked up eventually by many of the navigation apps out there (such as Maps.me, Organic Maps, OsmAnd, nearly all of the cycle+pedestrian route planners, ...).

And there are many other thematic maps - a template system makes them easy to setup: https://mapcomplete.org/

And which I packaged in an easy to use and easy-to-update website: https://mapcomplete.org/toilets

Here you go: https://mapcomplete.org/shops.html?z=12.2&lat=52.36511&lon=4...

Note: it takes a little while to load all of Amsterdam.

Disclaimer: I'm the (main) dev of mapcomplete

Maybe Organic Maps? https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.organicmaps/

Being on the wiki does not necessarily indicate "official endorsement". However, as long as the app holds onto the official copyright guidelines (see https://openstreetmap.org/copyright - more or less equivalent to CC-BY-SA), a closed source,commercial app is perfectly fine.

> then what's the point

Killing the fediverse: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-netwo...

Yeah, good question. Whether it was intentional or not, it still acts as good Map Trap

Well, it is not as if the OSM-community is a monolithic one. Some people are hardline anti-corporate and don't like this; others are part of a big corporation and see this as business as usual.

Even if Lyft would not give back in some form (spoiler: they do, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lyft), it spreads awareness and drivers will figure out they can fix issues themselves.

Map Traps (as these are called) are normally pretty harmless, e.g. a non-existent, small cul-de-sac that doesn't exist. A turn restriction (which is quite invisible!) seldom is.

The old server broadcasts a 'this person has moved'-message. Your followers will then automatically switch over to the new account.

This implies that:

- If the old server is offline or unwilling, you cannot move - Your old toots and interactions will still be tied to the old address, so you leave those behind.

There is some talk going on to find ways to mitigate this and it might be possible to fix the second issue.

The first issue is a bit trickier though. If you were to remove trust from the server, it becomes way harder to fight spam.

This is something that I'm doing with MapComplete - certain features are 'unlocked' when a certain number of changes has been reached (e.g. when the contributor has >25 changesets, the tags of the data are shown)

Whoops, that's supposed to look like this: https://imgur.com/Jh2OTLm

I mostly (only) test in firefox, and Chrome handles this differently it seems.

Indeed - this is my opinion, not the opinion of "OpenStreetMap". Thanks for pointing this out!

The reason that I haven't pursued a gamification approach with https://mapcomplete.osm.be is twofold:

- I'm focusing on other usability issues (and features) first - I'm worried that "mapping for points" instead of "mapping to have a good map/help the community/map what the contributor needs" will result in lower data quality. Before implementing such a thing, this should be thoroughly studied

That's what I'm hoping as well. I specifically wrote this essay with the hope that this will be corrected.

And I don't think that big, corporate involvement is necessarily evil - but we should hold them to a higher standard and be critical of them in due time.

Hi there!

Author here! I take pride in crediting OSM, so it is on multiple places. There even is an entire explanation on why OSM rocks under the 'copyright' tab. It's gonna move soon to be a standalone button.

Furthermore, a panel showing the community index is in the works.

With the latest Ubuntu release, it just works with `apt install waydroid`. Got it up and running in literally 3 minutes and with a few mindless clicks.

Lemmy does this: https://join-lemmy.org/

Maybe an OpenStreetMap-based application works well for you. Organic Maps, OsmAnd and Magic Earth have offline car navigation and (I think) warnings for speed traps.

As hardcore-OSMer: this is pure FUD.

There are suspicions, but no hard proof has ever been found about this.

However, there is a well-known (and non-problematic) case where OSM-data is used in GMaps. Some polish bus agency used OSM to create their GTFS-feeds, which were ingested into GMaps. Selecting the bus line will thus show an OSM-based line layer; but as that line layer is clearly attributed with OpenStreetMap, that is totally fine; both legal and ethical. See https://twitter.com/MapAmorePH/status/1453863816110952450?t=...

They do: https://2022.stateofthemap.org/#sponsors

Yes. They sponsored the last annual State of the Map-conference and already did some mapping work. They also released some analysis datasets which highlighted possible problems in OSM (with the intention to improve OSM)

This 'splitting up in layers' gets done by third-parties, such as geofabrik.

Geodata is more complicated then just 'layering' everything. Also, making an entire ecosystem change is a huge effort

Feel free to try out mapcomplete.osm.be instead - you'll find some fun micromapping there as well!

No. OSM could _not_ have grown this big if we had layered everything. Far from it - the big power of OSM is the integration of all those 'layers'.

Furhtermore, layering would needlessly complicate everything.

Take a railway crossing for example. Should it go in the layer "railways", in the layer "roads" or in the layer "railway crossings"? Should we make a new layer for paths, so that they are separate from car-only roads? What if something changes? How should an object be moved from one layer to another?

What with benches that double as a piece of artwork? What about this place that is a boardgame shop, a café and a social project for mentally disabled people?

What if a river doubles as administrative boundary?

If you want to extract data that is relevant for you, there is overpass-turbo.eu for this, where you can write a precise query and only get and download the data you need.