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  • infeeeee@lemm.eetoOpenStreetMap community@lemmy.mlLokjo.com - Your worldwide local map
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    12 hours ago

    If I click on a big chain supermarket (Lidl, Aldi or Spar) I get this message and I can’t see opening hours:

    Our filter indicates this a corporation or chain, which we don’t support.

    Why a map app wants to decide which stores I should go to? I want to decide what corporations I hate, please don’t tell me how to live my life.

    Since Qwant is down I started to use https://osmapp.org/ as a replacement. Not as polished as Qwant was, but clickable POIs on the default vector layer, with most important info visible.

    Edit:

    I found this in the FAQ:

    Q - After searching locations, some are shown with a red dot.

    A - These are for locations that are corporate or chains, and don’t show any information about the place. We do this because on our map we support fair policies, and shops whose primary target is to make a living by serving products.

    It assumes wrongly that small shops are always better. I live in a big city where nearly all local shops are owned by local oligarchs, AND the prices are higher and quality is worse than in international chains. So the profit will go to a wrong place either way, so my choice is my wallet, but this app wants to force me against that. No, thank you.



  • It’s a feature of an Android app (I even guess it’s preinstalled on some devices), and it was clearly stated in the title, that it’s not an Android feature, but it’s a feature of G**gle Authenticator.

    Yesterday you agreed to my comment, that the problem is when Android and other app features are mixed up. Here it’s clearly stated that it’s not an Android feature.

    You request more tight moderation, but unnecessarily strict mod control can kill communities. This news is related to Android, and isn’t against any of the rules on the sidebar. If you don’t want to see it downvote and move along. If a lot of us downvote it maybe OP will think differently and stop posting these articles.




  • Some feedback:

    • On white background the text next to the logo is not visible
    • Add screenshots in the README, it’s a GUI app
    • Requirements.txts for dependency management is the old way, read about pyproject.toml you can merge them a single easy to read and edit file
    • “Install the dependencies” means nothing to a non-python developer. Direct users to install your project via pipx, that’s modern and secure way of installing a python application with dependencies for non developers. Publish it to pypi for even easier installation.
    • Add a notice that currently it’s windows only os.path.join(os.environ["APPDATA"], "Tagify", "config.yaml") will fail on *nix systems. Use pathlib.Path instead of os.path. Use pathlib, I see on a lot more places it would make your life much easier.
    • I have a feeling that the file icons are not your work. If you copied them from somewhere make sure their license is compatible, and add an acknowledgement.

    Keep up the work, it seems like a nice project!







  • It’s a marketing article with nearly zero actual facts. One screenshot about the actual product.

    MS and others already use AI for drawing building countours for OpenStreetMap and OvertureMaps from aerial imagery. In osm these AI generated lines are only allowed to be imported after a human supervision and currently it’s very hit or miss. On low density areas it’s mostly good, but in dense city centers it’s unusable.

    In overture maps these lines are imported automatically, that’s why you can see buildings on rivers.

    They don’t write about these shortcomings in the article, and how they solved AI hallucinations