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gentile

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    Comment #48799398

    I've been making some custom maps for both Osmand and Comaps. The main big positive for Comaps I've seen is Android Auto being available freely (but you have osmand+ so moot point)…

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    Comment #48349407

    The 100k figure is an overestimate by a few percent. The OpenStreetMap data for ALPRs is pretty good, but there is some duplication. I (recently) programmatically identified ~2.5k …

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    Comment #47704472

    Consider balling up some electrical tape underneath the Ram stick. This solved this very specific issue with my laptop that was flexing too much and crashing.

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    Comment #47252890

    Download osm data, extract roads and surveillance, gpd overlay how=difference, remove/edit the different osmid's, write to pbf file, convert to obf file w/ osmandmapcreator, import…

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    Comment #47175286

    To add, a bit complicated, but osm data can be edited with osmium (cpp) or pyosmium (python). Then the edited data can be put into osmandmapcreator to generate the file to use in O…

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    Comment #44366829

    Yes, it just uses the shapefile from the tokyo open data site. https://catalog.data.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/dataset/t000008d00000... It's a quarto site so if you navigate to the reposito…

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    Comment #44361200

    Some more context for Japan's land use (it does not differ prefecturally; some local regulations like kyoto and building colors) The basics of Japan's Land use rules in english (on…

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    Comment #42639344

    I like: Kaeru no tsura ni shonnbenn, カエルの面に小便, (Like) piss on a frogs face; Basically the idiom "like water off a ducks back"

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    Comment #41915641

    It's mentioned in the article, the US embassy advises against unauthorized employment. https://jp.usembassy.gov/services/visas-japan-u-s-citizens/

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    Comment #41176512

    A license isn't needed for an electric bicycle. The law states that it is classified as an electric bicycle if it is only pedal assist and only up to 24kph (15mph). The issue arise…

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    Comment #40771138

    I only have some light use cases, so I use a cheap laptop (<$250) with a ryzen APU 8gb soldered/shared ram. Then added a 16gb ram stick, booted off a usb bios from github, increase…

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    Comment #40691472

    On youtube you can block the section with shorts in them with ublock (rclick > block element), this was good enough for my use. I don't know about other sites.

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    Comment #40346570

    There is a spelling mistake in the japanese translation under language tokenization. In こんにちわ, わ should be は.

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