@potter2010@lemmy.ca
member since 13 Mar 2025 03:08
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- on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
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on Sweden confirms 458 Britons deported or forcibly removed since Brexit in c/europe@feddit.org · 6 Sep 2026
The yanks are doing it across their economy and look how much they are winning.
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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
Maybe “pull” was the wrong word. However, looking at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/History_of_OpenStreetMap I see:
- 4th December 2006 – Yahoo! aerial imagery sketching allowed…
- September 2007 – TIGER data import for the US started
- 20th September 2007 – AND Data for The Netherlands imported
- 1st April 2010 – Ordnance Survey Opendata releases.
- 30th November 2010 – Use of Bing vertical aerial imagery allowed
And on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors it shows well over a hundred counties/regions with hundreds(?) of non-user data sources/sets that are used by OSM to maintain the map.
Edit: clarity.
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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 pulls from a few different sources, but for exact details it’s the community that enters the data. Can’t find an address or business? Add it and then it’ll be there for everyone.
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on CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in the Venezuela Response in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Since it relies on Openstreetmaps if an address isn’t added it can’t find it. You’ll likely always be able to find the street, but you may need to add the specific number yourself. Then once it’s entered it’s available for everyone.
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on What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server. in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Sounds like a cat. The entire place to vomit and it finds the most expensive/inconvenient thing to lay that stomach lasagna.
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on Budgeting Software in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Aug 2026
As long as you are fine with self hosted, another option is Actual.
Oh, wrong community.