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Openstreetmap is having a moment

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Re: Openstreetmap is having a moment

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Post by hamandcheese »

campchase wrote: post #8
kazinator wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That makes no difference: OSM Wikipedia ^ ^ | | | | v v Atlas Encyclopedia It's just which parallels of the commutativity diagram do you focus on. The map-versus-text operator (left to right), or the digital-versus-dead-tree operator (top down).

Do you think the other version is clearer, though? I think he’s right. I will probably update it.

I had to re-read the original sentence a time or two, but never thought it was outright wrong. I do think OSM : Atlas :: Wikipedia : Encyclopedia is slightly more clear, though.

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Post by Freak_NL »

One minor nitpick: measuring the output of a mapper is hard to do on the basis of the number of edits. Local mappers appear to have larger edits where many details in a neighbourhood or some topical regional updates are performed. I think corporate editors focus on fixing bugs and weirdness reported by linters, which are much smaller in scale in terms of changeset size.

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Post by mxskelly »

"If you’ve ever ... peaked at the dash of your obnoxious neighbor’s new Tesla…you’ve used OSM."

1. peeked, not peaked

2. Teslas do not use OSM for the on-screen maps. They use Google maps. Tesla only uses OSM for the data regarding parking lot layouts for the automatic parking features, nothing else.

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Post by whimsicalism »

afandian wrote: post #14

I had to look up "having a moment" in American. In British English it means being distracted, having a brain-fade, being a bit down. I think this article probably means the opposite...

In American English it can mean either. Usually the use you mentioned would be if you said "I'm having a moment" or something along those lines.

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Post by afandian »

whimsicalism wrote: post #15
afandian wrote: post #14

I had to look up "having a moment" in American. In British English it means being distracted, having a brain-fade, being a bit down. I think this article probably means the opposite...

In American English it can mean either. Usually the use you mentioned would be if you said "I'm having a moment" or something along those lines.

Good to know, thanks. Maybe I'm pre-conditioned to look for idiom-bending uses in blog post titles!

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Post by rayrag »

I have questions about OSM:

1. Is there any decent OSM app for Windows10 (good UI and offline capabilities is a must-have)

2. How can I display Russian/Chinese/Arabic city names in English?

3. If I create an OSM account will I be able to save routes and addresses?

Edit: Thanks for answers.

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Post by pizza »

afandian wrote: post #14

I had to look up "having a moment" in American. In British English it means being distracted, having a brain-fade, being a bit down. I think this article probably means the opposite...

It's interesting because as an American I'd find "having its/their/etc. moment" more common than "having a moment"

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Post by joejoebags »

afandian wrote: post #14

I had to look up "having a moment" in American. In British English it means being distracted, having a brain-fade, being a bit down. I think this article probably means the opposite...

The original title was "WTF is Happening to OpenStreetMap" but I decided it was too clickbait-y. Interesting to learn that I used a uniquely American idiom--didn't realize that.

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Post by joejoebags »

smegcicle wrote: post #10
kazinator wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That makes no difference: OSM Wikipedia ^ ^ | | | | v v Atlas Encyclopedia It's just which parallels of the commutativity diagram do you focus on. The map-versus-text operator (left to right), or the digital-versus-dead-tree operator (top down).

It's logically equivalent, but it seems much easier to parse that OSM [is digital version of] an atlas vs OSM [is a map instead of text like] Wikipedia

Thanks for the feedback, I updated it.
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