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@kensanata @Doudouosm I saw that and was initially very interested.

But then I read the Terms & Conditions. 🤮 To use Aether, you have a contract with a private company, with forced arbitration, no class action, with the company able to change the contract at will.

Its probably just a copy/paste contract. But I don't trust this sort of set up. I've seen it all before. When the VC money comes round, when the shareholders say things...

@mondstern https://histosm.org/ ?

@ND3JR Oh I often map when I'm travelling too!

@gappleto97 depends a lot on personal circumstances I suppose, but ensuring you spend less than you earn, and saving for a rainy day is always good advice?

@ND3JR I'm not 100% sure about when the ito world maps update. The #OSM wiki says only every 7 days, which isn't great....

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ito_Map

@ND3JR The 3rd (OSMI) is for "not correctly tagged maxspeed", missing maxspeed isn't included.

It shows some data for USA ( http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=highways&lon=-26.72983&lat=18.23330&zoom=2&overlays=maxspeed ). I think there just isn't much maxspeed tags (or *incorrect* maxspeed tags) in USA

@ND3JR Do you know about ITO world's speed limit maps?
http://product.itoworld.com/map/124
http://product.itoworld.com/map/125

The OSM Inspector from Geofabrik also can show bad `maxspeed=*` values:
http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=highways&lon=-26.72983&lat=18.23330&zoom=2&overlays=maxspeed

@3rik Cool! We have a little #OpenStreetMap mapstodon instance here.

@logomancer @drwho @grainloom photon is open source software.

It might find the thing you searched for because it is different software, but it's still all backed by the same #OpenStreetMap data

@drwho @grainloom StreetComplete has made it a little easier. But yes, it's time consuming.

Do you know about OpenAddresses? ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenAddresses.io ) They are collating "open" data address files? Ish.

@Antanicus There is also this https://github.com/posm

/cc @61 @feonixrift

@61 I've had success running minidlna on a fileserver, which shares video files over a local network. VLC supports it out of the box.

@karlos @mondstern does https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dstreet_lamp help?

@grainloom @drwho In theory there's an address bar on osm.org, Alas, address coverage in #OpenStreetMap is... well... rubbish. It's totally boring for #OSMers to record house addresses.

On osm.org you can right click to do directions.

@mondstern Es gibt https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:lit
#OpenStreetMap #OSM

@drwho @grainloom There has been some work on attempting to improve this, such as the "OSM Welcome Mat" https://welcome.openstreetmap.org/

What do you think about some of the intro stuff on the wiki? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/About_OpenStreetMap

@grainloom Lots of #OpenStreetMap routing software is available as HTTP/web/JSON APIs. OSRM and GraphHopper are big, good ones. Perhaps you could script something against them?

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing

@wakest @sproid CloudMade kinda pivoted a few times and doesn't do map stuff anymore.

In many ways Mapbox are doing a lot of what CloudMade tried a few years ago.

@socalledunitedstates @GreenandBlack @scottishwobbly I am trying to improve the mapping of #LGBTQ venues in #OSM, and there are smilar concerns. I'm using the rule of "if the venue has a big rainbow flag outside, then add it."

#OpenStreetMap has an "on the ground rule", where in theory you can map something if you can see it from outside.

So a shelter for domestic violence victims shouldn't be mapped (as such) if it's supposed to be secret and (say) just looks like a house from outside.