The campersite theme on mapcomplete shows sanitary dump stations as well
Images are uoloaded to imgur. Not perfect, but it just works and is reliable.
All other data gets (generally) uploaded to OSM, except for reviews which go to mangrove.reviews
And there is some Wikipedia/Wikidata in the mix for some other pages too, but that is clearly attributed
I've added 'image:menu' and 'website:menu' to https://mapcomplete.org/food . With it, you can now upload an image of the menu with a few clicks.
You can install it as progressive web app (basically a glorified bookmark on your home page, opening full screen giving an 'app'-experience).
I might package it as Android app one day, but that is something that'll take some time (and hopefully funding from NlNet).
This article is about global electricity production, not all energy combined. This is an important nuance, as much energy consumption uses fossil fuels directly, namely cars, many (older) house or industrial processes. Only a small fraction of this is electricity, and in the grander scheme, the "renewable" part is only a fraction: https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption.
So, while this is a step in the good direction, it is only a very small one.
@BlackLaZoR@BlackLaZoR@kbin.run would you mind updating the title to reflect this?
There are some who repurpose some Ikea-stuff as server racks: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ikea+server+rack&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F81%2F84%2Fab%2F8184ab11849051f4fa0f66f50b0ac97d.jpg
(I typed out an answer before, but it seems like it wasn't posted)
do you believe in OSM as a project?
Yes, definitively. It is widely used and known, many successful companies are alive based on the data and it is getting known.
What do you think its long term goal should be or even is?
To collect and publish geodata about the world - or at least about all somewhat-permanent objects that are located on this world. And we are succeeding at that pretty much!
Completely replace something like Google Maps?
It depends on what you precisely mean with "Google Maps". Google Maps is, first and foremost, an advertisement vector, disguised as a map. For many consumers, it is a map service which has lots of information about shops (including reviews and pictures) + navigation with traffic information.
So, some OSM-based apps might replace some of the services Google Maps offers, but many things (reviews, traffic information and pictures) are clearly out of scope for OSM (but can be filled in by Mangrove.reviews, mapillary or geovisio).
Having everyone use it as the main platform for looking at a map?
This is not the goal of OSM and should not be it. Have every map-app being based on OSM-data would be nice though. It'll bring other problems though, such as fighting spam and fake shops...
I sometimes wonder if OSS projects should have aims that ambitious.
Eh, it depends on how the OSS-project is structured. Is there an organisation behind it that lives from it and can make money of it, to fund it? Is it a hobby project?
The aims and ambitions are to be decided by the project maintainers and all people involved. Many OSS-projects and volunteer organisations can be thought of as being a do-ocracy. Hackerspaces are a good example of that, and a good intro to the concept can be found here: https://hackerspace.design/
I run MapComplete a bit the same. I do the stuff that I either want to make or where I can get funding for in some way (thanks NlNet!). If someone passes by with a feature request, my reply often is that I don't have time, but feel free to make it yourself.
I can’t imagine a world in which people would all be using open and free standards, and I think it’s because I’ve become so accustomed to the commercial aspect of developing software as things currently stand. What I think I might be asking for is actually your overview and opinion on OSM as a project and what we could expect of it, going forward.
In my opinion, Open Source grows at a slower pace, but is more sustainable (or the project dies and gets forgotten). On the other hand, there are - for some pieces of software - incentives by the closed-source projects - to switch people over, to keep the money flowing, so it is an uphill battle.
Cool!
Similarly I think projects with the data, such as renderings should have a place here, within reason.
Having some nice maps here? Sound like a plan, as long as they are (partially) OSM-based ;)
Discussion of OSM related news, such as WeeklyOSM.
I did ping them to automatically post here as well
Long time redditor, first time lemmyng: coming from feddit, is it unusual that my abonnement is still shown as pending? Posts do appear in my feddit-feed.
Well, we don't have a lot of Lemmy-experience too... I guess that the federation still has to take place? I assume this is a technicality and it'll resolve eventually.
Hi,
Addresses can be really complicated. The full guide is on the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses
Personally, I would open up JOSM, select all the buildings and slap addr:street and addr:housenumber=123on them. However, I would add addr:unit=XYZ on every one of them (as @Krzyzwen@feddit.de pointed out as well).
Next question: does every single house have their own letterbox? Or is there one location where all the letterboxes are located? Add a https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dletter_box with addr:street and addr:housenumber as well!
I don't think that adding an address to the plot of land is very useful (but a name of the project/area might be nice as well). Have a look at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place for this, place=plot or place=city_block might be appropriate depending on the situation.
If you have a lot of interactions with canal boaters, it might be interesting to create one or more custom layers in mapcomplete. Give MapComplete Studio a shot (but keep in mind that it is not exactly user friendly, let me know where you get stuck and I'll try to fix it).
If you have created one or a few layers you like, let me know and I might include them in the production version of MapComplete.