I have hundreds of POIs to upload to OSM. Most of those will be newly created, but some already exist.
What is the easiest method to do this semi manual work?
My thoughts: I'd like to generate links to iD with the map location and tags prefilled, so I can just check it's all good and validate, but I can't find how to do that?
Pinging @Doudouosm for reach (or if you have any ideas) ๐
There are three iPhone apps that I really really like a lot and that don't have an Android version. Silly perhaps but because of those apps I probably won't switch to Android. Do you have apps like that (either on Android or iOS)?
I'm reading Janette Sadik-Khan's "Street Fight" -- her book about her time as transportation head of NYC, building bike lanes, bikeshare, and pedestrian avenues
She prints this "city of the future" model from the 1939 World's Fair
Massive highways circling mammoth buildings; virtually no non-car routes; hilariously few trees
I'd love to read about: How did this become the vision of "the future" back in 1939?
What are some good books on that? Any recommendations, I'm all ears!
The epic linguistic map came up in conversation at work today, so today is one of those days to regularly to pause and spend some time admiring this map of North American English dialects by Rick Aschmann:
@bagder Thanks for posting this. As maintainer of a few (minor) OSS projects, this is a question I ask myself. You say other contributors are empowered to take up any role, but that doesn't address leadership. My assumption has always been that a project needs a lead, someone who has the time and confidence to do all the things you do besides code. You write "When I leave, there is no dedicated prince or appointed heir that will take over after me [...]". Curious about your thoughts on this.
@bagder sure, I get that. But Iโve also seen projects, even popular ones with plenty of contributors, struggle if the creator or lead goes away. A benevolent dictator role can be hard to replace / step into. Do you see that as a risk at all?
Parliamentary elections in #TheNetherlands today. Looks like anti-Islam populism is winning. PVV (you may have heard of their leader Geert Wilders and his short film "Fitna") is projected to get some 35 out of 150 seats, becoming the biggest party in parliament by far. That makes it likely he'll become PM.
By the way, this is how ballots are counted in The Netherlands. Voting is almost 100% in-person and on paper. The ballots are huge, there are 100s of candidates across 26 parties.
@derickr It looks like as much as 1/4 of the country voted for PVV. That's going to be hard to ignore. GW dialed back his islamophobic rhetoric very cleverly not only to gain broader appeal with the voters but also to make him more palatable as a coalition partner. It's going to be an interesting few weeks if this projection holds.
How hard would it be, using only open source tools and open data, to make an isochrone map of time to a significant urban center (say, 50k people or more)? How would you accomplish this? #gischat