ponkipo

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by ponkipo 4d ago
Exactly my thoughts. Advising to download and use JOSM to a novice OSM mapper to make their first edit there (to add a single tag, of all things) instead of iD is nonsense to me, just totally unnecessary overkill. I don’t even understand ho
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by ponkipo 2mo ago
About evaluation - you are right, they don’t say they are contributors in their comments explicitly (which they probably should do), but it was quite telling in one case, when a person trash-talked about OM clearly without proof, but then i
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by ponkipo 2mo ago
I've read both Organic Maps thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794446 (as it's my favorite map app I use for years around the world, and I'm an active OSM contributor as well) which quickly became
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by ponkipo 2mo ago
Another nitpick: at least OM is made by people who made MapsMe. CoMaps is not - developed by a community, whatever it means.
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by ponkipo 2mo ago
> Organic Maps is a for-profit venture that accepts donations. That's sketchy. I don’t understand why it is “sketchy”. Also do you have any proof on “Kremlin links”?
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by ponkipo 2mo ago
> OM has lost most of its community a year ago to comaps > rushing to compensate I understand that you, being a contributor to CoMaps which people can see on your page, want to promote it, but it’s just spreading false info. Just one
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by ponkipo 2mo ago
As a active OSM contibutor with 7k+ changesets, Organic is my favorite map app I use for years traveling around the world, also donated to them. Only use GMaps for finding businesses. Tried CoMaps, saw no reason to migrate to it at all - wh
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by ponkipo 2mo ago
comment doesn't seem very objective, OM receives monthly updates the same way it did for years, also getting new features each time. so define what you mean here by repeating "dying project" two times?
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by ponkipo 2y ago
Man this "Russia is running out of XXX" tale is becoming quite old and not being taken seriously nowadays - year by year goes with the same narrative and it's only getting objectively worse for Ukraine...
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by ponkipo 2y ago
Why you need to imagine things? deepstate map shows really well which army is "collapsing" now
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by ponkipo 2y ago
So.. if I want to help and seed the torrents, do I have to download the whole 80-120 TB for this? can I somehow help when I don't have a space for hundred TB on my machine? went to the website but didn't find a guide or anything e
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by ponkipo 3y ago
On their website if you click "Get the app" while sitting on Android - you are redirected to AppStore...
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by ponkipo 3y ago
nice comment, thanks for the very interesting perspective!
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by ponkipo 3y ago
"90% of Meduza's sources' predictions didn't come true". Source: https://www.proekt.media/guide/kremlin-telegram-meduza (it's in Russian, info is at the end of the article).
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by ponkipo 3y ago
Well, yes and no, even people who are strongly anti-Russian-regime-oriented told me that they stopped reading Meduza because it's giving info which is extremely one sided and not objective, like it's propaganda but opposite to a R
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by ponkipo 3y ago
I still remember my Lumia 820 with warm feelings, Windows Phone was such a nice OS...
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by ponkipo 3y ago
on the same topic - sometimes it's so frustrating when I put some shop name in Google Maps while I'm in Paris and looking on the map of my neighborhood, for example - and whoosh - it zooms so far out to show all the places which &
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by ponkipo 4y ago
Notion seems to be planning to add some kind of AI-based tool for their app, by the way - https://www.notion.so/product/ai