Amᵃᵖanda @amapanda@en.osm.town

Someone wondered what's the largest bounding box in #OpenStreetMap that doesn't have any nodes in it. That drove me down a rabbit hole. I didn't figure out how to do it, without just brute forcing it, but it was interesting to think about.
#GISChat

There are plenty of resources on how to get started in OpenStreetMap

RT @PickardJE@twitter.com

if there’s a worse signpost I’d love to see it

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1482419983141548032

American English speakers: Does “freebie” make sense to yous?

Do you understand it as something which is free, a giveaway or handout? What a tech company would call “swag”? What I send out from the OSM Promotional Material Programme, all those stickers I give away?

Although the source map images we had were... pretty rough.

Left is what we had. I've highlighted the townland border in yellow on the right. 🙂

Well this could have been awesomely useful for when we were mapping townlands in #OpenStreetMap

RT @aboutgeo@twitter.com

More experiments with #OpenCV.js smart segmentation: extra polyline simplification produces cleaner shapes. Tracing map features with #Annotorious will never be the same 🚀

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/aboutgeo/status/1481302036721324038

I can send this post on my phone...

"huh my Internet connection is timing out"

*twiddles thumbs*

"I know! I'll do some #OpenStreetMap mapping to pass the time"

hang on...

So yeah, maybe technically, if you squint your eyes, and you copy from GSV, and add things, Google Inc. isn't going to sue you, and the cops won't kick down your door if you do it just this one time. But the #OSM standard is to not do that.

For years, the #OpenStreetMap community has taken a “better safe than sorry” approach to what sources are acceptable, and erred on the side of not using something with questionable copyright/database rights status.

“#OpenStreetMap is not a project to explore the grey areas of international copyright law”

But you're forgetting something important about OpenStreetMap that someone much wiser than me said:

And one could make another argument that “Well the GSV Terms of Service says one cannot do that, but if I don't think just visiting a website binds me contractactually to the ToS, so 😛”