This isn't directly related to OpenStreetMap, or am I missing something?
this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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Everything #OpenStreetMap related is welcome: software releases, showing of your work, questions about how to tag something, as long as it has to do with OpenStreetMap or OpenStreetMap-related software.
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https://learnosm.org/en/ has a lot of information for beginners too.
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It's not directly about OSM but I thought it would be of interest to people here. I certainly found it interesting; it's good to update my knowledge about a map service I know less about.
Hmmm, maybe a general geo-community should be started then? I'd like to keep this one OSM-centric.
I would argue that OSM doesn't exist in a bubble and that discussion about other maps and related services is very relevant to OSM.
This argument is definitively true, but I come to this OSM-community for news about OSM and for help about OSM, not for general map discussions - that is explicitly the scope of this community.
Lemmy is big enough to have a general maps- and geo-community, go on an create it!
Very sad to see this level of gatekeeping in a rather small, slow and quiet community. Good luck to you.
Or join existing ones: https://lemmy.ml/search?q=Maps&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll.
This topic looks totally relevant to https://lemmy.world/c/applemaps.
I read this this morning and was raging that they didn't mention OSM at all in it!!
Wilmott worries that these maps, now dominant, lack information that more traditional maps like Britain’s Ordnance Survey (OS) still have: “An OS map shows you where a stile is for horses; I’m not sure Google Maps even knows what a stile is. When you’re surveying a space, you find that information but geo AI doesn’t have that information. I’m from Australia – you can look at a space where Google Maps might tell you to walk a route through tall long grass, but if you’re from a place you know: there will be snakes in there. Most of this kind of mapping, because it was developed out of urban maps, privileges urban information, not rural information.”
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