Dion Moult @thinkMoult@mastodon.social

> If you are unable or unwilling to use GitHub for pull requests, you can e-mail contributions, following the usual git via e-mail contribution workflow, to my e-mail address, which you will find attached to commits I authored.

why don't more projects do this?

or, yknow, just move away from GitHub...

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Connect on IRC (#osm-foss@oftc.net) or write us to foss@osmfoundation.org

Everybody is welcome!

@impiaaa @kyzh

Is it basically this?

1. set up a for-profit company
2. tell everyone it's a "collaborative", "open data" project
3. partner with a non-profit to earn brownie points & attention
4. train up your models and develop your tech based on crowdsourced data you got people to willingly upload
5. sell yourself to Evil Corp for $$$
6. shut down the open API, minimise and hamper any community efforts, maximise profits

#openstreetmap never stops impressing me!
In the area where I live, where there is almost no data on Google Maps (took 2 years for them to put our house on the map), OSM has lots of details, such as ski trails and football fields.

See image, comparing OSM to Google Maps:

Using #LibreOffice Writer for work for the first time and I adore it, it's so much lighter and more responsive than MS Word without the weird keyboard shortcut bugs that made working with Word on Mac a low-grade nightmare. Autocomplete doesn't work quite the way I'm used to though, I have to type Enter after typing the replaced string which I refuse to believe is the way it's supposed to work, and deleting the newline is very annoying.

I'd like to take a moment to thank all programmers and contributors to open-source software and various free ressources on the Internet.

You rule. That is all.

@thinkMoult They should update their support page to this 😂

Procedural cityscapes creation: Openstreetmap import in Unity and Houdini Engine
http://stinaflodstrom.com/projects/osm/osm.html

(submitted by liotier)

@thinkMoult
Wow. I knew Autodesk's business practices were despicable but they've managed to sink even lower in the few years I've stopped following the proprietary CAD field.

coders and non-coders of the fediverse: what is your **favorite ever** monospaced font?

(boosts? i like monospaced fonts.)

We need more & better #OpenStreetMap presets for “themed” things. Let's make #OSM *deeper*, *deeper* data.
#xp

I dislike how it's easier to add chains of big brands (e.g. McDonalds) to #OpenStreetMap, rather than types of independent venues. I think we've lost something if #OSM becomes a great map... of chains.

#xp

Why are links to the commit log often so hidden on git forges.

a.k.a. why is not every git forge UI awesome like cgit?