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will-bradley
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Comment #43968704
We'd love to have your input for improved transit in CoMaps! I agree it's an important priority. Last GSoC there was a project for ingesting GTFS feeds against OSM data, since loca…
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Comment #43968692
Un(?)fortunately, us Organic Maps forkers have been with the project since Organic Maps was OMaps, and before. The only people with more commits than the senior fork member are the…
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Comment #43967407
Yeah it's unfortunate. Allegedly Roman wrote those goals but the other co-founders never really went along with them.
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Comment #43967402
There's a lot of discussion about bicycle routing improvements, as well as displaying alternate routes. I expect these conversations to be continued in CoMaps, so your input is val…
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Comment #43967375
I agree, the issue is that the map data is highly customized. I believe StreetComplete uses online map tiles so that's less of a concern, but i.e. with Organic Maps the map data is…
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Comment #43967348
Keep a list of those missing tags, it's worth filing an issue for adding support in the future!
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Comment #43967327
Originally Alexander said that it was just too hard to register a nonprofit. I think the real answer is that he always intended to use it as an investment and sell it off (open sou…
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Comment #43966018
Nope, I'm only angry if I go telling all my friends that some app is the future of freedom and privacy, and printing flyers and driving them around town, and then that app turns an…
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Comment #43965993
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Comment #43965983
The "updates" link is for news and the "download" page has buttons that are inactive, are you seeing anything "Organic" remaining on the site? We've been trying to clean things up …
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Comment #43965959
Also with mobile apps, app store users are the most "valuable" thing -- much like Maps.Me, the "app" could be sold tomorrow and what really happens is the FOSS code is thrown away …
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Comment #43965923
Most of the top 16 signers of the open letter are well-known names in Organic Maps, and the Updates to the letter try to fairly characterize the (lack of) response from OM. It's ha…
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Comment #32362676
You shouldn't need a user account for automated tasks, that's what webhooks and deploy keys are for.
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Comment #29962833
I'm happy to help, I've done a decent amount of power line mapping in California. If you reply here or @willbradley on Twitter I can either advise or work with you to identify the …
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Comment #27572370
Does OsmAnd not work?
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Comment #27572363
This is a great attitude, but there's a lot of people out there who don't find orienteering fun, they just want to get into and back out of nature safely: the natural surroundings …
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Comment #27572343
I'm okay with it, because as an American I'm inherently distrustful of eastern European TLDs like cz ru etc but Windy is a truly amazing weather website so it inspires confidence (…