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• Post #3934850

  I rarely use Google Maps anymore, but has anyone else been seeing this kind of thing? SEO spam I'm used to, but these just seem like messing around for its own sake. Seems virtually anyone can add fake stuff to the map? But to correct the map, all you can do is submit a form and wait? So we get the fake mapping that people are scared of in #OpenStreetMap but with none of the transparency about who did it, and nobody has any real power to address issues they see. 😒 #gischat

• Post #2993458

  @AtanasE Just now up to 5

• Post #2993457

  A GIS / network / routing problem has occurred to me: Given a series of ALPR camera points with direction information, what is the optimal route to visit all of them from their blind side? Like the "traveling salesman" problem, but with a bat. #gischat

• Post #2993456

  Unexpected project for the day: If we wanted to design our own variant of the board game Metro [1], how could we create the tiles with the least amount of manual drawing? Square tiles feature 8 connection points, 2 per side. 4 routes cross the tile. They may intersect, but they do not branch or merge. After figuring out the 8 unique connection shapes, a bit of looping code gets you there! FWIW, there are 65 valid tiles. Back to work! 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_(board_game)

• Post #2993455

  I write my work emails in plain text mode, because honestly, you don't need inline images, formatting, or a thousandth copy of the County seal in my signature. The information I want you to have is in the text. And then we have my colleague. Email signature includes three tiny images for his contact info. When I try to reply as plain text, it grabs all the images in the thread and attaches them. Faced with removing all these attachments, I'm considering just not responding at...

• Post #2993454

  RE: https://en.osm.town/@OpenStreetMapUS/116561737712343153 Boundary relations are like middle children: they're probably not okay, and could use more attention than they're getting. If you're coming to #SOTMUS2026, I would love to see you at my workshop! And if you're not, I'll be putting all the workshop materials online at some point anyway. #openStreetMap #gischat

• Post #393041

  I used to trust #GoogleMaps cycling routes near me, but two things have happened. One I understand: I added every cycleway I could find to #OpenStreetMap The other, I don't. For reasons that are opaque to me, Google's cycle routing has gotten so much worse. Case in point: a route for tomorrow. Using OSM (Valhalla) routing, it suggests more or less the precise route I imagined. Google, though? Even forcing the route onto known cycleways, it keeps diverting off the cycleways and...