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amapanda

@amapanda@en.osm.town

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amapanda, to random
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New feature on ! We now calculate & show paths through large water basins on WWM, just turn on “Frames” in the settings, or go here → <https://waterwaymap.org/#frames=yes>

💬 read more on OSM forum: <https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/osm-river-basins-website-to-show-how-are-rivers-in-osm-connected/102655/210>

details in 🧵⤵

amapanda, to random
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I made a little programme to see who's entitled to free OSMF member for having mapped 42+ days. It can also tell you who's close to the 42 day limit.

📜: https://github.com/amandasaurus/osm-num-active-contributors

amapanda, to random
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needs a tag to say “this cafe has a plugs where you can power your laptop”

amapanda,
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Thanks to @thibaultmol and @MapComplete for informing me of the tags service:electricty=yes/no/limited/… for whether there's a place to plug in your laptop in a cafe.

📝 <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:service:electricity>
It can be added quickly with this MapComplete page: :mapcomplete: https://mapcomplete.org/cafes_and_pubs.html

amapanda, to random
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This thread on and corporate involvement has lots of interesting opinions from knowledgeable people.

Sharing without agreeing with everything in it. 🙂
https://en.osm.town/@zverik/112355381439908693

zverik, to random
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What I think happened when @linuxfoundation took Overture Maps:

Companies and foundations want to support OpenStreetMap. They see the huge community and the impact we make to the world. Foundations were made to support projects like ours.

But.

We already have a foundation. OSM Foundation.

They rightfully expect OSMF to support project grows, that is, to support mappers and communitiy and tools for editing and validation. Tools that would make Niantic stuff easily identifiable and revertable.

amapanda,
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@Melaskia @zverik @IvanSanchez this is why I love apps like @streetcomplete and @everydoor. They're highlighting another level of and making it much easier for people (incl me) to add that data.

There are many types of data, where we are far from complete

amapanda, to random
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Conversely, you aren't paying for , and you aren't the product. You're part of a global community to liberate maps. 😊😊
https://hackers.town/@lori/112266758656678850

amapanda,
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@selokichtli @julianwgs in the early days, people used to joke that to get good data in you either had to import data, or import Germans. 🤣🤣

amapanda, to random
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Oh cool! The German Postal service & DHL are using on their map! 🙂
https://www.deutschepost.de/en/s/standorte.html

amapanda, to random
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How do I go about deleting wikidata items about me?
Someone has added some personal stuff to wikidata that shouldn't be shared like that. I tried to remove it, but they keep re-adding it. How can I get this personal data deleted?

amapanda,
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@russss I have very little patience for doing the wikimedia bueocracy faff (which I'm sure will be very US centric), so I'll keep the GDPR deletion request ready.
But I'm gonna at least try to be nice, and to try their beurocracy first. 🙂

amapanda, to trans
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🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

Remember an important OSM rule: Don’t just bulk import your gender from an “official” source. Maybe the on the ground gender you survey yourself is more accurate, and you should throw away the official version?

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/happy-trans-day-of-visibility/111182


joachim, to random
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@openstreetmap is there a way to make contour lines more visible? I find it very hard to see them in any of the map layers.

amapanda,
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@joachim the maps on OpenStreetMap.org are only available as raster images now, and there isn't a way to change them to make one feature more visible, sorry.

amapanda, to hardware
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I think I need a new laptop. What's a good model?

I'll install debian on it. UK keyboard (so no apple). ~14 in screen. I'd prefer smaller & compacter, to powerful. But shouldn't be too slow. Relatively high budget.

amapanda, to Dragonlance
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Quick calculation of the “Longest Roads in Europe” based on road number (OSM's ref) rather than road name (name) shows different results, with results that one expects to find.

here's everything ≥ 300 km.

amapanda,
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№ 1 is Russia's P-21 at 1,471 km, from St. Petersburg north to the Russia/Norway border.
№ 2 is Russia's P-22 motorway at 1143 km from outside Moscow south towards the Caucaus
№ 3 is Germany's A 7 north-south motorway at 961 km.
№ 4 is Norway's part of the E 6 at 952 km (this shows complexities with OSM tagging. the E 6 is v. large.)

amapanda,
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The Italian Autostradia Adricia (A18) is № 8 at 688 km. It's not even the longest in Italy anymore. The A1, at 759 km, is one place ahead.

amapanda, to Dragonlance
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What's a good site to share small geo datasets for people to explore?

I wanna share my long roads data, and allow people to browse a map, and filter based on the properties of each feature. I can make a simple html map viewer myself, but that's a lot of work each time. Is there like a geo-spreadsheet web app I can use instead?

Github Gists can show a map from GeoJSON, but don't allow filtering, right?

amapanda, to maps
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All roads used to lead to Rome, now the longest road in Europe avoids it. 🤣

The longest road¹ in Europe in is the Autostrada Adriatica in Italy, at 774 km. It goes from Bologna to Taranto, and avoids Rome as much as possible by going along the Adriatic Coast of Italy.

¹ (ah, but how do we define “a road” 😉 🧵)

amapanda,
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I calculated this “longest road” from @geofabrik Europe extract.

I define “a road” here as a continuous sequence of OSM ways with a highway tag & the same name tag. osm-lump-ways generates this with one simple command:

osm-lump-ways -i europe-latest.osm.pbf -o euro-roads.geojson -f highway -f name -g name --split-into-single-paths --min-length-m 10000 --split-into-single-paths-by crow_flies

amapanda,
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The second-longest road in Europe is at 667 km from Moscow to St. Petersburg «Нева» which is the M-11 motorway. No, I don't know why it's called Нева in OSM. Wikipedia tells me that's a river… 🤔

amapanda,
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Here's the top 1000 longest roads in Europe (connected OSM highway's with the same name tag). Shortest is ~53 km long. (lots hidden behind others).

This shows some clear regional differences, which might have more with how data is mapped in , but might also reflect how different cultures name roads.

amapanda,
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Germany 🇩🇪, famously a fan of motorways, doesn't break into the top 1,000… 🤔
Spain 🇪🇸, Italy 🇮🇹 & Greece 🇬🇷 being also heavily represented.

amapanda,
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Algorithms that look for “the longest road” often find motorways. Makes sense. A government builds a new road across the country, gives it a functional, and boring, name, so it's the longest named road.

It just doesn't have any good toponomical story behind it!

amapanda,
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@jomo @alfons234 I wanna do one with ref next

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