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New Opportunity to join HOT Board of Directors

Who gets to choose the new directors?

Maxspeed freshness tool

One thing I am really pissed of is that tippecanoe cannot drop features by ordering of some attribute

Me too!

That would really help me with WaterwayMap.org. I opened a feature request (#132). Perhaps you can leave a comment on that issue to show how useful this feature would be. 🙂

Building drawing tips, a perfect guide

That’s great animations!

Boycotting OSM over SOTM 2024's tacit support of LGBTQ criminalization

@gileri, I’m not sure what’s going on here. You’ve got some ramblying long messages, and this is going off topic.

However, I must caution my LGBTQ+ people about the OSM Community Forum, and go against woodpeck & SomeoneElses advice. The CoC requires that you never name any action as homophobic/transphobic. It prohibits “Posting false or inaccurate information”, so you need to show that the action/person intended to offend you. (happened to me). This approach is alas common, and results in the silencing of marginalized voices. So you talk about LGBTQ* topic on the forum but be very, very careful about what you say. 🙂🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Boycotting OSM over SOTM 2024's tacit support of LGBTQ criminalization

the nation is conservative when it comes to traditions and practices and therefore public showcasing of such related acts might expose one to public criticism

6 months ago, the event organisers stated “LGBTQ people should not face harassment or discrimination”.

I collected advice from various nations and local Kenyan LGBTQ groups which might be informative.

Boycotting OSM over SOTM 2024's tacit support of LGBTQ criminalization

unless the organization can commit to some meaningful action to right this wrong

The OSMF Board voted to adopt a policy in Oct 2021 to not hold SotM in places like this were it it’s safe.

Boycotting OSM over SOTM 2024's tacit support of LGBTQ criminalization

The tone & words used in this diary is common when talking about diveristy within OSM(F). A 2020 petition signed by 2 current OSMF Board members, the organiser of this SotM 2024 and others, opened with:

systemic aggressive behaviour that demotivates and excludes participation by women and other minoritized groups in OSM … The OSMF protects these gatekeepers, and in doing so, perpetuates obstacles which works against the diversity agenda and core principles of ‘open.’

There’s been a long history of people declaring “$OSM_EVENT is toxic and unsafe, I’m not taking part in it”. For Clara to say ”I’m not taking part in SotM” is not out of the ordinary within OSM

pound vs pinfold

The pound vs pinfold map looks like a Danelaw map. AIUI there are many english etymology differnces that spring from that. Is this another?

The OSM Iceberg

😂😂😂😂

Hosting a continuously-updating vector tile server using AWS and an old laptop for $1.61/month

However, since the build takes longer than an hour, we’ll need to implement a lock file to make sure only one build runs at a time

Are you using Linux? You can use systemd’s .timer to start a .service to do the build. It takes care of ensureing only one runs at a time, so you don’t have to deal with lock files. It also makes it very easy to stop future updates while not interruppting any currently running updates.

“The Birdcage is lonely” - @OpenStreetMap engagement on Mastodon/Fediverse is streets ahead of Twitter.

Update continues to show Mastodon outperforming Twitter.

OSM is...... (OSM은......)

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“The Birdcage is lonely” - @OpenStreetMap engagement on Mastodon/Fediverse is streets ahead of Twitter.

this is after Twitter has been locked down to logged in user only, so this is not a fair comparison.

No, some of these examples predate that. I’ve been tracking it since November 2022, when Musk took over Twitter. Mastodon/Fediverse has often out performed Twitter.

en.osm.town: Announcing a new Mastodon instance for OSM (en)

In case you missed my announcement, my mastodon page is now @amapanda@en.osm.town.