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Check out this video that goes into a very deep technical explanation about how the satellites can be used as a Synthetic Aperature Radar to build a realtime representation of the …

It's interesting that this feels awkward to you, because when apps don't function this way it feels broken and odd to me. When I tap a PDF attachment in an email I expect the back …

Nope, unfortunately Royal Post claims copyright on all of the address data and won't release it unless you pay.

I love seeing all the great comments in here about the different APIs and the features they do and don't offer, but I want to point out that the underlying data for addresses is in…

There is no "official US Gov list of ZIP codes". They come from the US Postal Service, and those aren't published for free.

It's public and private. It still has to make money to survive because it doesn't get much in the way of tax money. https://www.uspsoig.gov/focus-areas/did-you-know/postal-serv...

It boils down to the fact that the United States does not have (public domain) knowledge of every address in the country. The USPS knows about deliverable addresses but won't give …

At least Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft.

Interestingly, it wasn't the Obama administration that tried to build the high speed rail. It was the Republican governor of Wisconsin (Tommy Thompson) that pushed for it. Scott Wa…

The Toner style from Stamen has several different layers that you can use to accomplish what you're talking about: - Hybrid does exactly what you're looking for: http://maps.stamen…

Thank you for sharing this. One small typo or formatting error: The last line is missing a ~/ and should be: `sudo chown -R nobody:nobody ~/.zoomus`

Take a look at the AWS Elevation Tiles: https://registry.opendata.aws/terrain-tiles/ While at Mapzen (RIP), I helped generate these from a wide selection of open elevation data sou…

OSM editors are prevented from using Google Maps because OSM prefers that we have explicit permission to use data sources. Since we don't have explicit permission to use Google Map…

They sell the 15" "Late 2015" model: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MJLQ2...

As someone who has spent a considerable amount of time on data that has ended up on this page, I think the fact that the list hasn't grown says more about the priorities of other c…

Hello. I am the creator of alltheplaces and Max is absolutely correct. Alltheplaces is a bunch of scrapers right now because it was the fastest way to get the data, but if you have…

It'd be great to have this data in Internet Archive. If you check out our GitHub repo [0] you can see where we coordinate finding data sources. The data I download gets composited …

I want to give another example: I'm currently updating the Terrain Tiles dataset [0] and a very significant portion of my time was spent working around terrible government data dow…

Check out OpenAddresses: we're trying to solve the address/location data aggregation problem so you don't have to. We do all the data scraping and collating for you so you can work…

All addresses are pretty hard for computers to understand, so the people building the software to make them understand (geocoders) usually make them work for the most 'in-demand' a…

US Census can't really work with anyone when it comes to their data. They take their responsibilities under Title 13 [0] (which prohibits them from sharing information they collect…

It's a couple completely new imagery layers. Digital Globe has lots of imagery and these layers appear to have different imagery for lots of the areas I've checked. Digital Globe i…

As a long time contributor to OpenStreetMap, this is hugely appreciated. Getting direct support from Digital Globe is important and hopefully helps signal that OSM is worthy of peo…

Mapcode doesn't identify a place/business/venue, it identifies a location on earth. If the building moves or a business changes offices then the Mapcode changes, too. Take a look a…