I play tennis. A niche usage of #OpenStreetMap is named courts. This helps me to know which to book. For example, for an important match at Preston Park I might want court 1, 3, 6, or 7 so that people aren't walking past all the time. This info is not on the booking site. Niche, but useful.
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#OpenStreetMap Mile Oak houses complete! Brunswick square + any roads missed out to complete and that will be the entirety of Brighton & Hove https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#15/50.8480/-0.2142
Finally filled out Brunswick Square in Brighton & Hove
Sussex Uni's West Slope development is continuing. The buildings have now been demolished and there is a site plan on their web site. The Uni is generally well mapped, and I know that they use OSM as the data for campus maps #OpenStreetMap
Very excited to have won my first Brighton & Hove Parks Cup tennis match 6-2 0-6 6-4.
Might have to work on those 2nd sets though.....
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Looking at building=* in Overpass Turbo there are 93,463 buildings in Brighton & Hove
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@eco-g @openrightsgroup A bit of a Trojan Horse, because you *won't* be downloading a new app. Consumers will only see a benefit. They can use whichever parking app they already have on their phone to pay for the services of another parking provider. The NPP sits in the middle and relays the messages....whilst building up a [valuable] database of transactions.
These transactions *should* be fully anonymised in a GDPR "Privacy by Design"-style. You are right to question whether it is.
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@richardf@en.osm.town Interesting to see the tone of articles on OSM nowadays. Very positive. I would still like "OSM data isn’t always fully reliable" to just say "data isn’t always fully reliable" because any source will be imperfect, but only OSM gives you the agency to improve it.
Last week's Saturday edition of The Times talked of a project using OSM and *didn't* feel the need to explain what OSM was.
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[apologies if this doesn't add up, I think it is correct...]
33k undistinguished, i.e. building=house/yes
24k terraced houses
21k semi-detached houses
11k detached houses
2k blocks of flats
1k 'garden rooms', i.e. substantial sheds in back gardens
a small number marked as commercial buildings
@hareldan@mapstodon.space Oh!... I never thought ethical AI leopards would eat MY face 🤕
@hisdeedsaredust Well done spotting HRH Princess Consort of Thailand plaque in Lewes Crescent https://osm.org/node/8665803245
I hadn't believed that it actually existed, but now I do. That and https://www.blueplaques.net/show_images.php?search_id=id!2598
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@zverik@en.osm.town Appears to work. I created a FeatureCollection in geojson.io, saved to a file, then uploaded to Mapping Party Tracker
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Now i've got to decide what to use it for (!)
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@harry_wood @OSMLondon @geomob Oh, Dennis *and* James. Well worth attending for either.
https://lgm.jsonsingh.com/
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@jimkats@infosec.exchange I'm now considering putting in a change request to iD to make admin boundaries non-stick, i.e. someone would have to deliberately join nodes to it rather than it being automatic.
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@hisdeedsaredust@mastodon.online bonza! I'm going to do some tweaks to OpenPlaques now that i've 'finished' B&H buildings. In brief, many editing features are available only to admin users to a) make the main site simpler, b) reduce spam and vandalism.... and I may have broken the drag-and-drop location repositioning when I upgraded the site recently.