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AlexTrask··on Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store
I encourage everyone to improve OSM and add the not found POIs not only to appear on Organic Maps , to make everyone to have a open database of geolocated information
AlexTrask··on OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20
Try using organic maps. Free software with OSM data
AlexTrask··on Organic maps: Experimental feed based public transport mapping
From my experience working with GTFS it's difficult because the operators usually don't include all the information but the fact of having GTFS support it's a great step
AlexTrask··on Organic maps: Experimental feed based public transport mapping
It also includes an elevation layer that can be useful while biking
AlexTrask··on Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
My advice to learn programming is to avoid shortcuts and do the hard things like read the documentation
AlexTrask··on 3D OpenStreetMap
It's not very intuitive,if you go to the graphic options you can enable the ground elevation
AlexTrask··on OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022
If this gives you hope you must check the humanitarian openstreetmap team. They are so great https://www.hotosm.org/
AlexTrask··on Ask HN: First-time dad-to-be. What do you wish you'd known back then?
In my experience with nursing everybody plans this as a binary election nursing / formula when you can mix it and do 80% nursing 20% formula
AlexTrask··on Ask HN: First-time dad-to-be. What do you wish you'd known back then?
I readed the same book. It's a great book and well structured, if you live in the USA specially because there is information about USA lifestyle like medical insurance or babysitting
AlexTrask··on Show HN: Self-Hosted Maps Stack
If you only want routes without multimodal you can use Graphhopper https://www.graphhopper.com/
AlexTrask··on Heresy
I think that Mr.Graham is not talking about rights and progress.

curl -sb -H "http://paulgraham.com/heresy.html" | grep "right" one will be the last.<br><br>There are aggressively conventional-minded people on both the right come from the left. The next one might come from the right. Imagine when, like the medieval church, they say "Damn right we're banning

AlexTrask··on Open Infrastructure Map
I think that osmand uses vectorial maps by default and this is image tiles.
AlexTrask··on Ask HN: Who is using Contabo for their virtual servers?
I use , they are cheap and work well. The performance it's not great but the ratio price/perfomance it's ok
AlexTrask··on Telegram's getting ads
Someone at gizmondo don't like Telegram,the Durov original message says the oposite:

> 5. All parts of Telegram devoted to messaging will remain ad-free. We think that displaying ads in private 1-to-1 chats or group chats is a bad idea. Communication between people should be free of advertising of any sort.

Original Source: https://t.me/durov/142

AlexTrask··on Exotic Programming Ideas
It seems prolog. would be nice to see it working with a big database like wikidata
AlexTrask··on Wheelmap.org - A map of wheelchair accessible places
Google made an ad for Google Chrome https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EulA50zMWj4
AlexTrask··on Pointers from Portugal on Addiction and the Drug War
During the last years Portugal is doing a great job in a lot of fields like education or economy. A great example for southern Europe countries
AlexTrask··on Lenovo’s Fedora-Powered ThinkPad P53 Is Everything I Want in a Linux Laptop
>The ThinkPad P53 is a great machine, but maybe it's time for Lenovo to implement a more ... [+] fingerprint-resistant material? - No please, I prefer fingerprints than scratches
AlexTrask··on New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads
If you are interested in improve privacity on iPhone and user Firefox you can user Firefox focus but i will seed ads
AlexTrask··on Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight
I edited OSM for 10 years and in my opinion it depends of the zone. In my zone the comunity it's organized, the people checks strange edits and also have comunity projects. For example we detected that there was a lot of streets without name some years ago and we made tools to control the streets without name and worked on it, now about the 90% of the streets have a name. As I said for me the problem it's that the quality of information it's not homogenous
AlexTrask··on Vector tiles in QGIS 3.14
A part of this feature Qgis is a great tool made by people who works on GIS with an involved comunity
AlexTrask··on Facebook acquires Mapillary
5 edits on OSM since 2014 I can't see his interest on OSM
AlexTrask··on Polyphasic sleep takes napping to the extreme
I thought that the recomendation was to sleep REM cycles multiples (45-60min)
AlexTrask··on Easily rename your Git default branch from master to main
Should we stop using robot word? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot#Origin_of_the_term_'robo...
AlexTrask··on An Implementation of Tempest in GNU Radio
I'm reading Cryptonomicon of Neal Stephenson and I discovered this attack some days ago. It's mind blowing
AlexTrask··on Improved vacuum in PostgreSQL 13
I suggest an improvement, to be able to vacuum without having to have the free space of the table. Example to vacuum a 1Gb table you must have a 1Gb free
AlexTrask··on StreetComplete asks questions, with answers used to improve OpenStreetMap data
Just your osm user, and it uses oauth api
AlexTrask··on Fixing Ellis Island's borders in the face of incorrect government data
On osm you can mark the kind of acces so you can indicate that is a service acces
AlexTrask··on Wanna Do Business in Pyongyang? Call Alejandro Cao de Benós
This man apeared some times in the spanish TV. He avoids questions about censorship and critic questions. It's just regime propaganda
AlexTrask··on All the current trees in Barcelona
Possible source of the data https://opendata-ajuntament.barcelona.cat/data/en/dataset?q=...
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