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by yellowbkpk 4d ago
Tesla routing uses a mix of its own data and TomTom, which uses OSM. As a point of reference, I fixed a road name in OSM ~3 years ago and flagged it through TomTom's site directly ~2 years ago and the Tesla map hasn't fixed it yet
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by yellowbkpk 4mo ago
Check out this video that goes into a very deep technical explanation about how the satellites can be used as a Synthetic Aperature Radar to build a realtime representation of the entire globe at meters of resolution: https://you
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by yellowbkpk 1y ago
It's interesting that this feels awkward to you, because when apps don't function this way it feels broken and odd to me. When I tap a PDF attachment in an email I expect the back button to go back to the email I was just viewing,
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by yellowbkpk 1y ago
Nope, unfortunately Royal Post claims copyright on all of the address data and won't release it unless you pay.
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by yellowbkpk 1y ago
I love seeing all the great comments in here about the different APIs and the features they do and don't offer, but I want to point out that the underlying data for addresses is incredibly hard to find. The reason the commercial geocod
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by yellowbkpk 2y ago
There is no "official US Gov list of ZIP codes". They come from the US Postal Service, and those aren't published for free.
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by yellowbkpk 3y ago
It's public and private. It still has to make money to survive because it doesn't get much in the way of tax money. https://www.uspsoig.gov/focus-areas/did-you-know/postal-serv...
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by yellowbkpk 3y ago
It boils down to the fact that the United States does not have (public domain) knowledge of every address in the country. The USPS knows about deliverable addresses but won't give that information to the federal government because then
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by yellowbkpk 5y ago
At least Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft.
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by yellowbkpk 6y ago
Interestingly, it wasn't the Obama administration that tried to build the high speed rail. It was the Republican governor of Wisconsin (Tommy Thompson) that pushed for it. Scott Walker used it as a wedge to split the electorate and win
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by yellowbkpk 7y ago
The Toner style from Stamen has several different layers that you can use to accomplish what you're talking about: - Hybrid does exactly what you're looking for: http://maps.stamen.com/toner-hybrid/#12/37
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by yellowbkpk 7y ago
Thank you for sharing this. One small typo or formatting error: The last line is missing a ~/ and should be: `sudo chown -R nobody:nobody ~/.zoomus`
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by yellowbkpk 8y ago
Take a look at the AWS Elevation Tiles: https://registry.opendata.aws/terrain-tiles/ While at Mapzen (RIP), I helped generate these from a wide selection of open elevation data sources.
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by yellowbkpk 8y ago
OSM editors are prevented from using Google Maps because OSM prefers that we have explicit permission to use data sources. Since we don't have explicit permission to use Google Maps, we can't use it. Separately, Google Maps has a
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by yellowbkpk 8y ago
They sell the 15" "Late 2015" model: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MJLQ2...
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by yellowbkpk 8y ago
As someone who has spent a considerable amount of time on data that has ended up on this page, I think the fact that the list hasn't grown says more about the priorities of other companies than of AWS. Amazon doesn't (yet) have ti
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by yellowbkpk 9y ago
Hello. I am the creator of alltheplaces and Max is absolutely correct. Alltheplaces is a bunch of scrapers right now because it was the fastest way to get the data, but if you have data in a machine readable format already then I don't
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by yellowbkpk 9y ago
It'd be great to have this data in Internet Archive. If you check out our GitHub repo [0] you can see where we coordinate finding data sources. The data I download gets composited into tiles for display on maps, so we're updating
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by yellowbkpk 9y ago
I want to give another example: I'm currently updating the Terrain Tiles dataset [0] and a very significant portion of my time was spent working around terrible government data download websites or incompatible distribution formats. Fo
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by yellowbkpk 9y ago
Check out OpenAddresses: we're trying to solve the address/location data aggregation problem so you don't have to. We do all the data scraping and collating for you so you can work on making a geocoder. https://ope
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by yellowbkpk 9y ago
All addresses are pretty hard for computers to understand, so the people building the software to make them understand (geocoders) usually make them work for the most 'in-demand' address formats. Just like every other bit of softw
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by yellowbkpk 9y ago
US Census can't really work with anyone when it comes to their data. They take their responsibilities under Title 13 [0] (which prohibits them from sharing information they collect) very seriously. They're trying various options t
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by yellowbkpk 9y ago
It's a couple completely new imagery layers. Digital Globe has lots of imagery and these layers appear to have different imagery for lots of the areas I've checked. Digital Globe is offering these two layers to OSM editors to impr
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by yellowbkpk 9y ago
As a long time contributor to OpenStreetMap, this is hugely appreciated. Getting direct support from Digital Globe is important and hopefully helps signal that OSM is worthy of people's time and contributions.
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by yellowbkpk 9y ago
Mapcode doesn't identify a place/business/venue, it identifies a location on earth. If the building moves or a business changes offices then the Mapcode changes, too. Take a look at Mapzen's gazetteer project "Whose
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by yellowbkpk 9y ago
When I helped run a college radio station as a student, one if the things I had to check on was the Emergency Alert System (EAS). It's the system that cuts into your broadcast and allows emergency personnel to transmit information over
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by yellowbkpk 10y ago
There's a beep, an LED blip, and once it's docked you cannot remove it from the rack. There's lots of things wrong with the system, but returning bikes is pretty darn low on the list.
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by yellowbkpk 10y ago
I was on an LHR-IAD flight earlier this week that was 2 or 3 in line for takeoff and had to taxi back to the gate so they could remove something from the hold. From the conversations I overheard it was a phone that had to be removed from so
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by yellowbkpk 10y ago
It depends a lot on the wind and the size/shape of the propellers. When I fly my DJI UAVs up near 400 feet above ground on a zero-wind day it's very easy to hear when I'm outside. When they get to be ~500 feet away it's
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by yellowbkpk 10y ago
I spent Memorial Day weekend working on Python/OpenCV traffic counter that uses similar motion detection techniques. I tried to explain how it works in the readme on the GitHub repository: https://github.com/iandees&#x2

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