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Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
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Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
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It still works, I've just tried.
On Google Maps Web on Linux Firefox, when I search for фермерське господарство, I get autocomplete results. Clicking on one fills the search bar and drops a pin on the map. The search bar remains filled, but the pin disappears a second later, and the left sidebar shows a generic description rather than the label. It seems like these pins are only half-present on the Google Maps servers.
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Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
It still works, I've just tried.
On Google Maps Web on Linux Firefox, when I search for фермерське господарство, I get autocomplete results. Clicking on one fills the search bar and drops a pin on the map. The search bar remains filled, but the pin disappears a second later, and the left sidebar shows a generic description rather than the label. It seems like these pins are only half-present on the Google Maps servers.
Apparently these are false alarms: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30528022
> OP, why do you think a farm business (which gmaps are showing the location of) should be in the same place where farm land is? These simply seem to be the addresses where a "farm business" is registered, as can be confirmed on a company-info-aggregator site [1]... To answer your point about why these seem different (e.g. you cannot report them), I think it's because they are automatically scraped by google from the official company-info sites in each country. Seems to be a similar situation in other countries, as far as I can tell. [1] this is the info of the first item on gmaps I get - address matches the location I'm shown https://youcontrol.com.ua/catalog/company_details/21897611/
> P.S. Those marks still look weird nevertheless. Not reportable or edible. The only article they link to is useless. Maybe it's worth fixing.
Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
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this is why you do cross-check, and need to understand the limits on the precision of realtime war info. A lot of info has significant fuzziness and consumption of it is an active process. For the snake island there was information that communication got lost at some point during the battle, and they stated that most probably all the guys died. It wasn't intentional disinformation, and that is the key difference from…
> i wouldn't hold it against the TV people who built this legend without waiting for full confirmation or denial - again you need to understand there they can get carried away and why. I think it’s entirely reasonable to hold journalists to some standards that include “not making shit up and then reporting on it”. I can be (and am) simultaneously sympathetic to their side but not to their journalistic actions in this…
have some empathy, man. Imagine you're being bombed and then a Mig-29 of your AirForce comes and shoots down the attackers. And then bombing terror starts again and the Mig-29 comes and saves you again, and then the bombing terror starts again ... In such situation most people wouldn't be able to preserve any coherency to their thoughts and words at all, while those journalists still lead those war information TV marathons for hours.
Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
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> what a shitshow the first few days of the Russian invasion has been. Major breakdown of their digital systems and lots of improvisation. can we corroborate this with chinese and/or non-western media? it’s hard for me to believe anything at all during a war.
China is a close ally of Russia and does not have much media freedom. I do not know why you think it would be worth listening to anything they claim.
South China Morning Post has its biases but it's good reading. Recent articles on the war and Chinese opinion:
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3168998/ho...
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3169021/china-told-u...
Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
China is a close ally of Russia and does not have much media freedom. I do not know why you think it would be worth listening to anything they claim.
South China Morning Post has its biases but it's good reading. Recent articles on the war and Chinese opinion: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3168998/ho... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3169021/china-told-u...
thank you, i used to read SCMP in the past, forgot about it.
Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
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>>If it's an update to the Docker images >Google uses neither k8s nor Docker internally. It's so weird when people just go on the internet and lie about how things work with such utter confidence. No 'I believe', no 'if things are still done that way' just pure lies typed as fact. Should be an account ban, really. (Them, not you.)
What did I say that's incorrect? When I said "If it's an update to the Docker images", I was speaking hypothetically.
>I was speaking hypothetically.
There are well established grammatical constructions that indicate hypothetical speaking and you didn't use any of them.
Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
#158I was trying to check if this is happening also on OpenStreetMap, I searched for "фермерське господарство" which returned results in Ukraine, but I wasn't able to restrict them to a single city so I don't know if those are actual farms or not. Somebody who knows OpenStreetMap better could check this?
Overpass Turbo [1] is the search for OSM data. One can search for partial key-value combinations. When searching for `name:фермерське` around Kyiv, I only find one instance: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1gBr
Generalising the search for `*=фермерське` does not yield much more (around Kyiv, for example): https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1gBA
You can pan and zoom the map and repeat the search with the 'Run' button on the top left, but I often get a time-out when searching for regions spanning more than ~50 km.
Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
#159I was trying to check if this is happening also on OpenStreetMap, I searched for "фермерське господарство" which returned results in Ukraine, but I wasn't able to restrict them to a single city so I don't know if those are actual farms or not. Somebody who knows OpenStreetMap better could check this?
Overpass Turbo [1] is the search for OSM data. One can search for partial key-value combinations. When searching for `name:фермерське` around Kyiv, I only find one instance: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1gBr Generalising the search for `*=фермерське` does not yield much more (around Kyiv, for example): https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1gBA You can pan and zoom the map and repeat the search with the 'Run' button on the top…
Try [landuse~"farm"] (which will match several different types).
Re: Ask HN: Can you help me remove the marks for the airstrikes from Google Maps?
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Overpass Turbo [1] is the search for OSM data. One can search for partial key-value combinations. When searching for `name:фермерське` around Kyiv, I only find one instance: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1gBr Generalising the search for `*=фермерське` does not yield much more (around Kyiv, for example): https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1gBA You can pan and zoom the map and repeat the search with the 'Run' button on the top…
Try [landuse~"farm"] (which will match several different types).
Sure, I specifically only included the Ukrainian name.