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Ha, not sure why it got submitted here now, but since I wrote the software, I'll provide some background: A couple of years ago we had a hand-fiddled table in our OpenStreetMap wik…

Sorry, I can’t agree with your characterization. Obviously nitpickers exist, but the general community can be very helpful. Some people have strange ideas and expect everyone to go…

Minor correction: one of the developers is working for Mapbox

OSM is more like a community of communities: There are people mapping with very diverse value systems (ranging from underserved people to semantic data aficionados), groups and cor…

Just a few months ago SpaceX fanboys were telling us those satellites were no problem, because "space is so large". The problem is, they’re operated by overworked, delusional peopl…

Blocks are useful, because you can distribute the workload onto several workers. Most encoders nowadays write first blocks with just nodes, then blocks with just ways and then just…

Yeah, the OSM PBF format is really efficient in size, but it can be quite a pain to work with those files. Every way consists of nodes, which are usually at the very beginning of t…

For me it's because they do damage their workers' rights and their fans are so insufferable: The denial that they have quality issues, the repeated lies ("we are going to build a f…

Nope, they just cherry-picked someone who is positive, which is not the case for most mappers.

I like and use nsupdate.info for years. Also: It's free software.

"How hard must being a bank be, it's just a few numbers in a database." After all those new-ish, app-based banks are for people with too much time on their hands. You mostly can't …

Objects are dependent on each other and new, legitimate edits can happen on top of damaging ones which we would not like to revert automatically. Yes, there are tools in place whic…

No, the company that integrates it makes me pay (by doing work for google)

In case you want to control your HS100 from Apple Homekit, I recently wrote a small tool that you can run in your local netrwork: https://github.com/thomersch/tplink-homekit

Contact some organisation (e.g. EFF or Chaos Computer Club) which specialises in that stuff in order to save yourself from being sued by the vendor.

Really staggered to see work on Podcasting and not even mentioning or considering Podlove http://podlove.org/ They are already working for several years on improvements and standar…

Interesting. The project structure looks a bit weird, though. It's basically an own GOPATH, which makes it harder to vendor. I would suggest putting src/devt.de/dudeldu in the root…

Satellite/Areal imagery is not the most accurate thing. It might be skewed, misaligned or stitched incorrectly. In OpenStreetMap areal imagery is a great help, but not the single s…

In Germany those two things are distinct. 250 km/h is very high speed but not necessarily speeding.

You might like http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/ . But honestly, even if it's proprietary, OpenStreetMappers don't mind. We're happy that someone is using our data, that's what we are …

There are commercial sponsors for the Congress, e.g. for some of the network equipment, because it would be uneconomical to buy network equipment and using it only once a year. Nev…

I would love to see support for pongo2 (which is a Django style template library). Working with template inheritance would be so much easier.

Reminds me of http://codeivate.com , I really like it although it has some rough edges