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dalkvist

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    Comment #38733909

    The mod is older, and they hired the modder to work on the expansion. From the blog posts the expansion is a lot closer to vanilla then the complex mods.

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    Comment #38405330

    Several companies have osm vector tiles, mapbox among them. Osm.org isn't really for end-users, the focus is on mappers.

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    Comment #38378086

    Where did you get pikant for Swedish, im native and never heard that one

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    Comment #38349523

    Sweden had colonies in north America and the Caribbean. Denmark still controls Greenland. Sweden and Norway are both colonizers in the US way, expanding boarders by stealing land f…

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    Comment #36135374

    Google dont directly use osm, as far as we know, but they or subcontractors check the changelogs and often add newly built things hours/ days after they get added to osm, presumabl…

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    Comment #35362677

    Army movement is mostly limited by food, see https://acoup.blog/2022/07/15/collections-logistics-how-did-...

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    Comment #34366417

    Some EU countries do, in Sweden food stuffs are halv vat compared to the norm (12 vs 25)

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    Comment #34323226

    Sweden had/has roads onthe middle of nowhere/forest that has more free space on the sides and at each end of particularly strate and flat stretches, there are oversized parking spo…

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    Comment #34125497

    Vici 3 is fun, for a more modern setting and a bit more realistic check out democracy 4

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    Comment #34031946

    You mind sharing links? I would be interesting to try some bf again

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    Comment #33374685

    I had a similar thing happened with Zelda for the original Gameboy. There was some mobs in one of the first dungeons, that needed to be killed in a particular order, written on a p…

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    Comment #30741042

    Witch is why you have an electric engine heater in cold(er) places, no need to idle :shrug:

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    Comment #30564944

    I have a solarwatch that I can't use in the winter time, after moving up north, not enough sun light to keep it charged =p

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    Comment #30035091

    True, we are only 9 million people total and the north is mostly uninhabited. I totally see how that feels tiny. Anyway by your description I pictured a small winding 1-line 40mph …

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    Comment #30034988

    Opentopomap is openstreetmap with height data primarily from the space shuttle LIDAR missions. The resolution is good for 60N-60S, towards the poles not so much.

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    Comment #30024605

    You make it sound like it was just a small country road =) The E10 is the main highway connected Northern Sweden and Norway, and it gets a lot of truck traffic.

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    Comment #30024520

    A quick workaround is to buy some spikes for your shoes. If you are in Scandinavia most outdoor and sport shops have them. Just remember to take then off then you go inside =)

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    Comment #29250066

    The way we detect things in our own solar system is basically to take several images of the same patch of sky and look for things that moved. Objects that far out have a slow appar…

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    Comment #27958314

    Cool! I didn't think the tracking cameras was on during the summer. But I guess Southern Norway still have some dark hours.