Yes, you need to create an account to edit the map.

Like, a lot of information could simply be pulled from government databases. Yet OSM doesn’t seem to do that, often leaving out information that should be publicly available.

It is already the case, data is imported from public database with compatible licenses.

It does requires a lot of manual verifications and from my experience the data available is not always better than the data already available in OSM.

Then there’s the very weird thing that they don’t have any satellite view

There is satellite view for editing, depending on the area you usually have at least 3 different satellite imagery supplier that you can use for editing

what exactly is the aim of the project?

The main of the project isn’t to provide a final product usable by everyone, it’s to provide the data that can be use by any other app.

Maps have power, they’ve been used through the centuries by those in power as tools of propaganda and control. Today it is important not to let the big tech company have the monopoly on these tools.

Things might have changed since the last time you get to contribute to osm, you should try again. Open openstreetmap.org , click on “edit” and you will have immediately a tool that you can use for editing with satellite imagery. Or go to Tasks.hotosm.org to contribute to humanitarian projects using OSM

In Paris a lot of apartments had a cellar opening on the outside.

Like this one:

Unfortunately a lot of them have been removed since it’s much easier to have everything in the fridge at constant temperature and energy used to be cheap.

When we believed the future would be better.

Now when we looked at the future we see climate change, rise of fascism some the world, destruction of the biodiversity …

My experience is that in most cases, when asked about your nationality in a form it’s easier and normal to only give one nationality.

Like at the airport, even if I have multiple nationalities I only give one passport, I just have to make sure it’s the right passport (the one with the visa for example).

However in there case of back accounts, insurances … They ask specifically “are you a U.S. citizen ?”. In this case answering no to this question would be a clear lie.

Some monks are still doing that.

In Monastics rules that have been written centuries ago it’s wrote common to have an hour or two of prayer in the middle of the night, around 2-3 am.

People are still going to work in Ukraine, they are still paying bill and still need money for that.

Yes, they also decided to change the time to decimal time.

The day was divided into 10 hours, each hour was 100 minutes …

There is legislation about that. Not in the US of course, but in France and I think other European countries there is laws requiring to turn off ads, light in empty parkings lots, street lights … In the middle of the night.

You’re CEO and VP of IT are idiots.

Of course you can have open source in an enterprise environment and have someone to blame. You hire a company to install the open source software and maintain it.

There is also the Atelier Paysan in France that designed a lot of agricultural equipment published under creative Commons license.

https://www.latelierpaysan.org/Outils-et-plans

Do they ? You state that roads are carrying more traffic than rails as obvious but I am not certain it’s true.

I’m not sure what would be the best metric so I decided to compare the number of passagers on the most used road in France with the most used rail line, that are both in Paris.

The most used road is the Autoroute urbaine Nord with 200 000 vehicles per day.

The most used rail line is the RER A with 1 400 000 daily passengers, 7 times more.

Yes, this is the first thing I’m doing when subscribing to a trial. As soon as I’m subscribed I immediately cancel so I don’t forget and I use the service for the trial period.

I remember very specifically not being able to play a game I was gifted because it needed at least 256mb of ram and the family computer only had 128mb.

I was extremely sad, then after months tried to push my parents to her a new computer. They say that the computer is supposed to have 256mb of ram.

After a while we realized that one of the ram sticks was not properly plugged in.

I think at least 80% of my printing is organizers.

I think I should warn you, it’s a 3h documentary about monks who committed to a vow of silence. There is no voiceover and no extra music, only the sounds recorded in the monastery.

So as the title said the movie is mostly … silent.

It’s an experience, a bit hard to get into but I think it’s the best way to experience and understand what their life is like.

I don’t know how to describe it but at one point there is a monk cutting a thick wool fabric and the just the sound of the scissors cutting through is memorable.

For the movie Into great silence, the director contacted the monastery to propose the idea for a movie about the monks in 1984. They said they needed to think about it.

In 1996 they called him back saying that they were willing to do it!

Bethesda’s office

Proof that men want to wear skirts:

The game is amazing ! I don’t know how to describe the feeling after I just finished the game.