TheTechnician27 @ TheTechnician27 @lemmy.world

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I couldn't really get into StreetComplete when I tried it, but I think that's mainly because I'm used to the iD editor's UI and because it isn't fully featured. Vespucci solved both of those things for me and gave me a fantastic editing experience. That said, for all I know, recommending Vespucci could leave a newcomer completely overwhelmed with options. So I would say that it's worth starting with StreetComplete if you want a highly gamified experience for stuff like tag editing for existing objects or starting with Vespucci if you feel like you want something extremely powerful, then trying the other one if your first choice's UI doesn't suit you or doesn't do what you want it to do. (StreetComplete and Vespucci are both available on F-Droid.)

OSM has a ways to go to be entirely competitive with GMaps as a navigation tool in most regions (although it gets the upper hand in other areas). OSM's major advantages are four-fold:

• It's open to be used by anyone for any reason for free.
• It can be contributed to by anyone.
• (Crucially) It has a way higher ceiling than GMaps could ever hope to have. The level of potential granularity in OSM is absolutely insane. You can mark fire hydrants down to the color, diameter, pressure, and number of couplings. You can mark power lines down to the voltage, shape and material of each individual pole, etc. Individual trees can be marked down to the species. Every street crossing can be marked as having tactile pavings, a type of curb, a material, signals, refuge island, elevated or not, etc. Individual entrances to buildings can be marked as different types and with different door mechanisms. Heights of buildings in meters, whether they have air conditioning, etc., can be marked. This is barely scratching the surface. For navigation, things like this can be superfluous (I would argue that for people with disabilities like blindness, some of these things like the crossing types could be useful), but for research and specific applications, it can in theory crush GMaps rather than just being brought into parity with it.
• The non-satellite map is just way, way better. If I look at my neighborhood which is reasonably well-mapped on OSM and then compare it to GMaps and Bing Maps, the latter two look like an absolute joke and rely heavily on satellite imagery to fill in the gaps. The problem with that of course is that not everything is visible from space, and it often gets fuzzy with minute details.

I contribute to OpenStreetMap through surveying and tracing. It's given me some perspective on how wasteful our infrastructure is and how colossally unusable it is on foot.

(If anyone's interested, please, please ask me about it; I highly recommend it as a way to have more fun on walks and hyper-familiarize yourself with where you live. The built-in, web-based iD editor is great on desktop, and the third-party Vespucci editor is great on Android. Unfortunately, the appearance of Go Map!! on iOS seems possibly lackluster, but it seems just as functional.)

The roads are in such bad shape because sprawling road (read: car) infrastructure is unsustainable and bankrupts cities. What we need is economically sustainable micromobility and public transit infrastructure.

I really don't think this is true. It might push some politically engaged users to Firefox, but unlike Musk, most people don't know who Thiel is, and as long as he keeps it that way, nobody will care.

Justice Department is 100% lobbing this over to JD Vance's buddy Peter Thiel who's going to enshittify it even further and turn it with its massive install base into a tool for techno-fascism.

Making a meta post today because oh my god this line is so emblematic of how hilariously awful this film's writing is, and I need to point it out to other people.

Cathy also doesn't understand how averages work and how her contract is not the only data point in existence.

Until they do that, their PM shouldn't be getting up in front of cameras and crying like a whiny little bitch about how a video game portrays their history.

Apologize for Nanjing and maybe there's a snowball's chance in hell you have a leg to stand on.

Edit: he said "It is an insult to the nation." It's a nation which is broadly too cowardly to recognize and apologize for the senseless and solely perpetrated murders of hundreds of thousands and rapes of tens of thousands. Your nation's government has no honor for this, and no microscopic "insult" in a game can sink you lower.

A proposed rule to require a warning to customers about a potential charge and to give a grace period to fix the problem appears to have been dropped, as was a requirement that banks disclose statistics on the fees such as total revenue and total number of NSF fees charged.

This part's definitely bullshit.

Another brain drained. Thanks, fascists.

Inbred Marty McFly on the left there.

They said less beer, not less alcohol

So I gave you an article showing that cannabis legalization also corresponds with a decrease in alcohol in general, not just beer.

Buddy, I KNOW.

You're strawmanning what I'm saying as "all drugs are bad except weed, which is a gift from God", so I gave you something more concrete (health information) that you can't strawman to fuck and back. That's why I linked to both articles. Hope this accommodation to your illiteracy helps. :)

Dude, I don't use cannabis or alcohol. I have no personal stake in this game. I care about this solely from a public health perspective and acknowledge that 1) cannabis is substantially less unhealthy than alcohol and 2) cannabis legalization correlates with a decrease in alcohol sales. I don't care how long you've been alive; being alive longer isn't an argument, so quit being condescending and piss off.

Damn, not as many people pouring literal poison down their throats now that weed's legal for most people, huh? Something something world's smallest violin. Fuck you, alcohol industry.

Or you know... it just means no updates and we'll all probably be fine.

Dude, I would be hesitant to use an OS more than a month after EOL. I hope you realize that your OS no longer receiving security updates is a really, really, really bad thing. People staying on Win10 instead of upgrading to Linux or macOS or downgrading to Win11 is going to be zero day heaven.

Kyiv*

The Dixie Chicks did 9/11.

Voyager makes me feel right at home as a former Apollo and RiF user.