If you're curious, the San Francisco Sanborn Maps are actually available directly from SF. Fun to look at https://sfplanninggis.org/pim/Sanborn.html?sanborn=V3P253.PD...
Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project
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Re: Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project
#32I wish AI leaders would fund more data archival projects, instead of hoarding it themselves. They could build a lot of goodwill, but the current state of the art is destroying old books and denying anyone access to them. These archival projects have an enormous impact, though they are chronically underfunded. I wish there were a strong economic incentive to support them.
Everything is "chronically underfunded". There has never been a thing in the world that was "well funded" because people's objectives increase with the amount of money they have. No one has ever said "Wikipedia has enough now" or "The Internet Archive doesn't really need any more money" or "Firefox has collected enough money from Google that it can now operate independently forever". Besides, this so-called goodwill…
Hmmm, there are definitely people saying "Wikipedia has enough now". They have enough cash to keep the site going for a long time, but they still beg for donations.
Firefox is similar, people complain about Mozilla's side projects distracting from firefox development all the time, and that they could runa lot leaner if they just focused on the browser.
Re: Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project
#33If you're curious, the San Francisco Sanborn Maps are actually available directly from SF. Fun to look at https://sfplanninggis.org/pim/Sanborn.html?sanborn=V3P253.PD...
People have georeferenced a lot of SF maps on OIM as well, you can explore them here: https://oldinsurancemaps.net/san-francisco-ca/
Re: Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project
#34If you're curious, the San Francisco Sanborn Maps are actually available directly from SF. Fun to look at https://sfplanninggis.org/pim/Sanborn.html?sanborn=V3P253.PD...
People have georeferenced a lot of SF maps on OIM as well, you can explore them here: https://oldinsurancemaps.net/san-francisco-ca/
Very cool! Great resource dude.
Re: Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you elaborate? I checked the news and couldn't find what you're referencing myself.
Two events: Anthropic did end up paying a $1.5B settlement for a case involving the use of pirated books. See Bartz v. Anthropic. Second, apparently archiving content and providing it to others is risky business. It is often ruled as piracy, see Hachette v. Internet Archive. It went badly for Internet Archive, against common sense.
> It went badly for Internet Archive, against common sense.
not really
they were operating under model when they remotely lended the same amount of books they had (effectively operating as a library)
then they started doing it without any limits whatsoever, which in fact is piracy and illegal
some people with common sense begged them to stop and stay in legal operating area
they refused, got (predictably) sued as publishers were unhappy already about remote library and (as predictably) lost case