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- on MapQuest’s app surges to No. 1 in Navigation in the Apple App Store, after refusing to rename Lake Ontario in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
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on Germany says Russia behind Leipzig airport drone attack in c/europe@feddit.org · 2 Sep 2026
There was recent news of mire than 100k Russian men fleeing the country, largely because they feared escalating mobilisation in the days after the upcoming elections…
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on MapQuest’s app surges to No. 1 in Navigation in the Apple App Store, after refusing to rename Lake Ontario in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
OSM doesn’t really “pull” data. The vast majority is sourced by hand, and adding data from existing sources is a complicated process that requires a lot of preparation and cleaning up afterwards. So basically all of it is a community effort - and a single contributor can make a significant contribution to the project
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 Aug 2026
It’s a gift that keeps giving because each minute the clocks are refreshed with new madness
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 Aug 2026
What the other one said. Keep the page open for a minute, and a new set of clocks from the same models appear. Sometimes, a perfectly good clock will be replaced by nonsense.
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on rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 22 Aug 2026
Whenever I feel overwhelmed with pro AI stuff, I go to clocks.brianmoore.com and feel a little better
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on Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026
How does on spend 80 billion on a metaverse? (And would it have been another 40 billion to add legs?)
Wel yes, sketching is exactly the manual labor I was talking about. The TIGER import was indeed massive and very automated, but the US community is to this day working on reviewing it. The Dutch situation is very similar - because it had early, high quality open data. In countries were data was released later or of poorer quality, the OSM map had already been filled up to a degree that doing these massive imports became very hard. Majority opinion is that that’s actually a good thing - it seems like countries where the map was filled organically (both by hand alone or also with smaller, slower imports) have a more thriving mapper community. I don’t think the Ordnance Survey data was used for a massive imports, but rather as one source during the mapping process (the others being notes from going there yourself, open street view images, aerial or satellite imagery, …). As an example, here in Belgium we started importing buildings around 2019, which you can clearly see here. But it only sped up an existing process of adding those buildings to the map.