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CBS is reporting on a report from the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP) whose corresponding August 20 press release can be found here. (Archive here.)

@VIRAL

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Personally, I think it’s for the better they remain separate projects for logistical reasons. I also understand why OHM went with CC0 for their license, and it was their (I think correct) choice to make it incompatible with the OSM one.

I know that’s vague, but mainly, I think OHM is better off not having to worry about OSM shenanigans, while OSM is better off being able not to have to worry about historic preservation.

It’s a separate project with a separate license.

We’d ask that you didn’t try. Directing your energy toward improving OSM in your area and moving people away from the corporations kowtowing to Trump and other fascists is what makes an actual difference.

OpenHistoricalMap tracks that sort of thing. OpenStreetMap is strictly for what’s currently (and at least semi-permanently) there. For businesses that just closed, it’s a good idea to put a note saying something like “Formerly Dairy Emporium” (along with potentially, say, when it closed if known). This not only potentially helps confused users, but it also helps other contributors who might try to “correct” what seems like a mistake.

Editing and changing the info is ideal, because it preserves the edit history. A deleted object is a lot harder to find the edit history of.

something something ask me literally anything about using or contributing to OpenStreetMap or about what it is/the state of it. get hyperspecific; see if I give a fuck.

Source: reasonably long-time user and contributor

The largest oil supply disruption on record is also the only self inflicted disruption that I’m aware of.

Hi. If you consider refining part of the supply disruption, then Russia – formerly one of the foremost fossil fuel exporters – fucked itself even harder. Invaded their neighbors hoping they would roll over in three days. Day 1651 or something into the very special military operation, Russians are queueing hours for gasoline while importing fuel as fast as they can.

Family members were in tears during the hearing at Cheshire Coroner’s Court as Coroner Jacqueline Devonish announced that she found Lucy Harrison died due to unlawful killing on the grounds of gross negligence manslaughter.

The coroner said: "To shoot her through the chest whilst she was standing would have required him to have been pointing the gun at his daughter, without checking for bullets, and pulling the trigger.

“I find these actions to be reckless.”

It reminds me of this conspiracy that was circulating a few months back that Apple Maps had “deleted” cities and places in Lebanon to culturally erase it for Israel’s invasion.

In reality (which you could see by e.g. looking at Reddit posts from a few years ago), Apple Maps’ coverage of Lebanon was absolute unusable dogshit the entire time. There were complaints about how it wasn’t even usable for basic navigation in Beirut. The city of Tyre (which was misspelled “Tyr”) was still there despite being one of the hardest-hit cities by Israel’s invasion.

Which was, to be fair, staggeringly incompetent, but it was provably true. Apple Maps’ coverage sucked so badly that, at a surface level, it looked like somebody took an erase tool to a competent map.

I think a lot of people don’t realize how automated corporate maps applications are. Which can be a weakness for crowd-sourced data like OpenStreetMap when there aren’t enough contributors, but that democratization is also a huge benefit that anyone can see and fix issues. The main parts of Google Maps that aren’t automated are points of interest, and those are kept up-to-date thanks to the network effect where e.g. business owners see value in maintaining their information or users feel like they’re helping out (read: doing free labor for a trillion-dollar corporation).

So fwiw, the change was made official and updated in GNIS the day it changed on Google Maps, which uses GNIS behind the scenes. That same day, USGS said the name had taken effect in GNIS but that it was waiting for its maps to visually update.

I think this is a product of Google’s infrastructure being faster to automatically update with GNIS changes. The fact they didn’t step in to override it already shows that they’re willing to go along with this; I don’t think the fact it changed before USGS adds any significance to that bootlicking.

That is, I don’t assume Google manually intervened to make this happen faster.

Still, fuck Google Maps. I’m glad people are waking up to how this level of hegemony over maps gives corporations too much power.

Well in that case, it’s cool to see Fairphone using /e/OS!

Sorry, I realize that question could be interpreted in two ways: I meant for Fairphone not to try to get Graphene working on their phone. I know Motorola is trying to do that right now, for example.

ELI5: Why use /e/OS over Graphene? This isn’t a rhetorical rant; I’m genuinely curious.

Edit: See below. I misphrased this question.

Dude, I forgot OsmAnd had an iOS version until like a couple hours ago. We’re all dumbasses on this blessed day.

I don’t think I understand the question. OsmAnd and CoMaps are both meant to show businesses, and how much information those businesses have is, for most cases, dependent upon what’s in the underlying OSM database, not what OsmAnd or CoMaps are able to show.

On OsmAnd, for example, I’m able to go to Configure Map > POI Overlay and select whatever type of POI I’m looking for. In CoMaps (mobile), I can select the magnifying glass and then go to Categories.

… Huh. Can’t believe I forgot this.

But is ice cream machine broke? y/n