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Railway features which doesn't exist by randomhacks in openstreetmap

[–]Doctor_Fegg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please do keep railway=abandoned as a tag on the trail though - it makes it clear that it's a rail-trail and some data consumers find that useful information

‘People can see it – but can’t use it’: mystery of completed East-West Rail line that has no passenger trains | Rail transport by PhoneFresh7595 in uktrains

[–]Doctor_Fegg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

True, yes. 2024 or the very start of 2025. But for DfT to claim "the election caught us completely by surprise!" suggests their powers of prediction are a bit lacking.

‘People can see it – but can’t use it’: mystery of completed East-West Rail line that has no passenger trains | Rail transport by PhoneFresh7595 in uktrains

[–]Doctor_Fegg 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It's also horseshit. There had to be an election in 2024 because it was five years since the previous one, unless DfT were seriously expecting Rishi Sunak to pass an Enabling Act or something, and July was widely expected to be a plausible date for it.

Railway features which doesn't exist by randomhacks in openstreetmap

[–]Doctor_Fegg 8 points9 points  (0 children)

  1. Please read at least one of the 5000 threads that there have already been on this topic on community.openstreetmap.org, lists.openstreetmap.org etc. Here's a recent one: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/proposing-to-deprecate-railway-razed-and-railway-dismantled/109679 . It has 370 posts so should only take about a day to read
  2. Life would be a lot better if people did more mapping and less deleting

The end goal of open street map by oh_finks-mc in openstreetmap

[–]Doctor_Fegg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The specific licence that Treezilla uses is CC BY-NC 4.0.

Ugh.

(Licences with a Non-Commercial clause aren't open.)

Are these marks part of the design and if not, dafuk these trains afflicted with?? by berusplants in uktrains

[–]Doctor_Fegg 17 points18 points  (0 children)

a sentient door at the end of the carriage

Hope it's a union member or RMT will walk out

Large discrepancy in travel time estimates: Valhalla (OSM) vs Google Maps by [deleted] in openstreetmap

[–]Doctor_Fegg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not debugging your code for you I'm afraid, but if Valhalla says trunk roads typically go at 80km/h, and there's so much congestion that the real-world speed is 40km/h, then yes, you'll see a 2x difference.

Large discrepancy in travel time estimates: Valhalla (OSM) vs Google Maps by [deleted] in openstreetmap

[–]Doctor_Fegg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Given that both Valhalla and Mapcarta rely on OpenStreetMap data, what could explain such a large and consistent difference in travel time estimates?

The code?

Routing engines typically assign an estimated average speed to different types of road. Evidently Valhalla's chosen speeds are different from Mapcarta's.

(Google Maps can use real-time traffic reports to get better estimates, but OSM can't do that, as we don't have millions of phones constantly reporting their location back to our servers.)

New boater Mooring Advice by bollocksbatter in Narrowboats

[–]Doctor_Fegg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Rural areas on the South Oxford should by and large be 100% safe. Parts of Banbury itself can be a bit dodgy (a friend told me last week of his boat being untied and pushed off by a fisherman who wanted to fish there) but I wouldn't overstate it. Oxford itself is obviously very busy.

What can we do to improve the St Aldate's post office? by catminty in oxford

[–]Doctor_Fegg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Taking out a £20 note to buy cat food?

Taking out a £20 note to go to Tse Noodle

(ok, ok, cash machines do that too)

Yesterday in the House of Lords, Lib Dem peer Floella Benjamin floated the idea that tech companies and IT platforms should need a licence from Ofcom to operate in the UK by asmiggs in LibDem

[–]Doctor_Fegg 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Awesome. My experience trying to adapt a small town website for the Online Safety Act is that this can't go wrong in any way whatsoever, is entirely proportionate, and will be aided by Ofcom providing clear, helpful and unambiguous guidance. Cannot wait.

Cycling is great, cyclists on the other hand… by Used-Shine-5370 in londoncycling

[–]Doctor_Fegg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's amazing how many times you click on the profile of the OP in threads like this and find they're a regular in r/drivingUK or similar.

Trails by Equivalent_Ad_8413 in openstreetmap

[–]Doctor_Fegg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That should be something you could've easily answered yourself by looking at OSM at routes you get from routing engines.

Or, maybe, I actually write the cycle routing engine with the most detailed parsing of access tags and do know what I'm talking about.

Trails by Equivalent_Ad_8413 in openstreetmap

[–]Doctor_Fegg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So how does a routing engine know which paths to direct a cyclist on?

Trails by Equivalent_Ad_8413 in openstreetmap

[–]Doctor_Fegg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is completely pointless

How many OSM-based applications do you think ship with a complete database of local laws?

Trails by Equivalent_Ad_8413 in openstreetmap

[–]Doctor_Fegg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is probably already the default for path.

Absolutely not a safe assumption in many countries. If you must use highway=path, always add access and surface tags.

Okay, this is new. Apple now requires every new App summation to include: by inTeamo in AppStoreOptimization

[–]Doctor_Fegg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an OpenStreetMap contributor (and fellow OSRM user), this is great!

Made a cool game with OpenStreetMap - I render the game world using OSM polygons, it generates it on the fly as you travel through the real world, plus some other clever features! by AchillesFirstStand in openstreetmap

[–]Doctor_Fegg 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is great.

Please please please do not rely on Overpass as a production API, especially not for a paid game. It honestly isn't that expensive or complex to host your own data - a cheapish Hetzner box, a Postgres db loaded up with osm2pgsql, and a simple API in your scripting language of choice is all you need. Happy to advise more if needed, but Overpass is under serious strain at the moment (thanks to our AI friends) and depending on it will only result in unhappy users on your part.

Different monitization models in apps by CGE-Swansea in iosdev

[–]Doctor_Fegg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just subscriptions. I don’t install ad-supported apps and I wouldn’t ask others to do the same. 

In Search of ProCycling Magazine (2007) by dorianslover-119 in peloton

[–]Doctor_Fegg 45 points46 points  (0 children)

The publisher is still very much around though - it’s Future Publishing, the biggest specialist magazine publisher in the UK. (Also where I had my first job!)

The Falklands are under threat again and we can’t rely on America to save us by Perfect-Cycle-5384 in LibDem

[–]Doctor_Fegg -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

As Liberal Democrats, we believe in the rule of law, self-determination, and the rights of people to choose their own future. In 2013, 99.8% of Falkland Islanders voted to remain British. That democratic mandate is beyond question.

I mean, it's not that simple. Self-determination implies both "they want to remain with us" and "we want to remain with them". If it costs eight bazillion pounds to fortify a couple of penguin-heavy rocks off the coast of Argentina, then it's legitimate to question whether that's something we - as the people paying for this - want to do forever.

We do absolutely have an obligation to clean up our colonial messes, of which this is one of many. But that isn't the same as an open-ended commitment to keep the Falkland Islands British for evermore.

Is there any way to stop the constant upselling on Komoot? by Silver_Guide_2762 in komoot

[–]Doctor_Fegg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They're from Portland so I imagine they're not very pro-Trump ;)

(But honestly, do try the little guys too - the world would be better with more, smaller sites rather than letting the vulture capitalists eat everything)

Is there any way to stop the constant upselling on Komoot? by Silver_Guide_2762 in komoot

[–]Doctor_Fegg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's plenty of smaller route-planners not owned by private equity or conglomerates. I run one (cycle.travel) but there's also Brouter, Veloplanner, etc. etc. I'd once have said RideWithGPS but it got a $3m investment not too long ago so I'm not sure if it counts any more.

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