[kwlug-disc] OpenStreetMap is pretty good now

[Joan Currie]

 I would not mind doing either R on R, Javascript or PostgreSQL.
I found the talk on PGSQL last week very interesting at Smile.
I have just started with a couple of projects with PostgreSQL.
Cheers,
Joan.
============
"Is this something that anyone here would be interested in? There are
lost of different technologies that you could work on:
* Ruby on Rails
* Javascript
* PostgreSQL"

On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 5:21 PM Andrew Sullivan Cant <
acant at alumni.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> Hurray for an OSM post. :)
>
> I noticed that the CBC website, through MapBox, and The Record site,
> through Tableau, have both used OSM for some maps.
>
> *
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/van-crash-yonge-finch-witnesses-1.4631972
> *
> https://www.therecord.com/news-story/8670548-schools-struggle-to-go-green/
>
>
> And since Paul made a feature request, I will mention that I am hoping
> to organize some FLOSS contribution through KWRuby, and the OSM website
> seems like it might be a good candidate project.
>
> > https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website
>
> Is this something that anyone here would be interested in? There are
> lost of different technologies that you could work on:
> * Ruby on Rails
> * Javascript
> * PostgreSQL
>
> And I just noticed that there is translation work to be done as well!
> > https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:OpenStreetMap
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
> On 2018-06-20 1:12 PM, Chamunks wrote:
> > I actually have my https://rain-alarm.com pro app set to using OSM
> > instead of Google maps.  I am definitely a huge Google Maps content
> > participant ( one of their top photographers with almost 4 million views
> > on my photos ) but I really like the way that OSM is coming along and
> > generally prefer it when I can.
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 9:36 AM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc
> > <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org <mailto:kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     For all my scripts turning Google calendars into newsletters and
> >     booking meetings at Google community spaces, I actually try to use
> >     alternatives to Google's services as much as possible.
> >
> >     Maps have been a headache. Several years ago I tried OpenStreetMap
> and
> >     it was pretty terrible. Finding locations was difficult, and I could
> >     not figure out how to do route planning. Then I tried MapQuest, and
> >     honestly it was pretty terrible too. So I kept falling back to Google
> >     Maps when looking for unfamiliar routes.
> >
> >     I tried OpenStreetMap again the other day and it is much better. I
> >     find that I have to include provinces when looking up things
> >     ("Kitchener, Ontario" instead of "Kitchener") but the search
> interface
> >     actually finds locations now. Furthermore the interface supports
> route
> >     planning well enough that I can judge the distance between locations,
> >     which is mostly what I want (I don't care much for turn-by-turn
> >     directions. I have paper maps and can read them myself).
> >
> >     The one feature I miss are the elevation graphs that Google produces
> >     for a route. OpenStreetMap knows about elevations and tells me total
> >     ascents and descents, but does not graph them out. Oh well.
> >
> >     It is nice that OpenStreetMap has gotten much better, because Google
> >     Maps has gotten much worse. It has fallen prey to "click in the wrong
> >     place and something both unexpected and unpleasant happens" syndrome,
> >     and also "this website is getting too slow for my computer" syndrome.
> >     Such is the modern web, I guess.
> >
> >     - Paul
> >
> >     --
> >     http://pnijjar.freeshell.org
> >
> >     _______________________________________________
> >     kwlug-disc mailing list
> >     kwlug-disc at kwlug.org <mailto:kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
> >     http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > kwlug-disc mailing list
> > kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> > http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> kwlug-disc mailing list
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://kwlug.org/pipermail/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/attachments/20180623/1c73738e/attachment.htm>