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mtmail, 14 days ago to random

Enclave and Inclave "Why Is There A Tiny Bit Of Italy Inside Switzerland?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1fqinoNiZE

mtmail, 25 days ago to random

"driving the length of Arizona State Route 264 east from Tuba City while DST is in place involves six time zone changes in less than 100 miles" https://dustinfreeman.org/blog/temporal-liminality/

mtmail, 27 days ago to random

Nice #openstreetmap gamification challenge ("Super Mapper", "Mega Active", "161 countries"). I don't think I'll try to chase the last percent though.

(One missed day is funny: I was at an OSM hackweekend, sitting in front of a laptop all day... working on OSM stuff)

mtmail, 1 month ago to random

man_made=graduation_tower (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduation_tower). I've seen 20 and 30 meter ones, I didn't know there's even larger versions. Photos from wikipedia, attribution in image description.

[Von Mylius - Eigenes Werk, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31610166](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/377/060/874/220/568/original/cc81c47960b301f2.png)

mtmail, 1 month ago to random

"over the past decade I’ve GPS-tracked over 35,000 miles of walking in dozens of countries and cities." (includes maps) https://jeremymaluf.com/walking/

mtmail, 1 month ago to random

Distribution of the OpenStreetMap 'fixme' tag.

mtmail, 1 month ago to random

"In this 4-part series I build gypsum, a from-scratch GPS receiver." https://axleos.com/building-a-gps-receiver-part-1-hearing-whispers/

mtmail, 2 months ago to random

"the first tech meetup I’ve attended in Edinburgh for almost a decade" "Of all the technical communities I’ve encountered, the geospatial data community is the most inclusive, diverse and welcoming." https://www.isme.es/2024/03/30/Geomob-Edinburgh.html #geomob #gis

matthiasott, 2 months ago to random

Hear me out:

A website that showcases the best website headers called “Old McDonald’s Header Farm”.

ok bye

mtmail, 3 months ago to random

My first pull-request for the #openstreetmap iD Editor was approved. (thanks @tyr!) Soon you'll get a warning when you set both 'name' and 'noname' tag, a common mistake that already affects 18000 places. Sadly my other OSM Hackweekend project isn't finished yet.

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mtmail, 3 months ago to random

Really enjoyed Geomob Berlin yesterday. Nerding about about geojson and thermal satellite imagery processing https://mastodon.social/@geomob@mapstodon.space/111976381163535903

mtmail, 3 months ago to random

Lots of remote jobs in Oregon (or rather lots of remote job locations geocoded to Oregon) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote,_Oregon

mtmail, 4 months ago to random

historic=boundary_stone around London #openstreetmap Example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boundary_Post_in_Blackheath_Grove,_Blackheath.jpg

mtmail, 4 months ago to random

🙃 Took a photo of the bill so I can add the restaurant to #openstreetmap later. Turns out it's the address of the manufacturer of the payment terminal, not the restaurant. It's all factory default values.

mtmail, 4 months ago to random

I hope weird opening times doesn't become a trend among shop owners 🤨 #openstreetmap

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mtmail, 5 months ago to Dragonlance

Lots of hedges mapped in West Wickham, UK. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/51.37324/-0.01978 #openstreetmap

mtmail, 5 months ago to random

I chose a German castle from a weird angle and there must be 100s of castles in Europe. The tool identified the correct one (coordinates 5km off). Image didn’t include EXIF data like date or coordinates. https://geospy.web.app/

mtmail, 5 months ago to random

No trouble finding a place to sleep in Viñales, Cuba #openstreetmap https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2575076#map=17/22.61537/-83.70637

mtmail, 6 months ago to random

"Informed Address is a new technology that USPS started piloting in Northern Virginia in February 2020." https://www.usps.com/business/informed-address.htm

mtmail, 6 months ago to random

"In 2015, the complex border line in this area attracted the attention of the Polish tourist Piotr Wawrzynkiewicz, who learned from Wikipedia that there was a small unclaimed piece of land and claimed it for his micronation Kingdom of Enclava." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezovica_pri_Metliki#Enclave_border_dispute

jpmens, 6 months ago to random

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eclectech, 7 months ago to random

I close so many websites within seconds these days.

Look at this one. To read one (probably) crappy article there would be 322 organisations keeping track.

Three hundred and twenty-two.

Nah, I'm good thanks.

#enshittification #website

mtmail, 7 months ago to random

While adding a new cafe place to OpenStreetMap in Germany. Why would the owner choose a name unreadable, unspellable, unpronounceable to the average German passerby? I had to use OCR software to extract the name (Kαφενείο).

mtmail, 7 months ago to random

"Man Travels Across Japan With a GPS Tracker To Create a 4,000-Mile Marriage Proposal" "recognized by the Guinness World Records as the largest GPS drawing done by an individual, a record he still holds to this day [2022]." https://mymodernmet.com/yassan-gps-art-proposal/ (https://gpsdrawing.info/)