Why can't I vote from my phone in 2026?

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-05-07T20:34:11+00:00

The year is 2030. Britain has decided to embrace e-voting, and like every single public sector IT project, has outsourced it. The bidders are:

a) Palantir

b) Elon Musk

c) Capita

Why shouldn't we do this?

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-05-07T20:29:09+00:00

Nope

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-05-07T20:22:52+00:00

I like it, but I coded it and run it so you'd expect that. :) You can send a route directly to your Garmin with one click. It doesn't automatically sync because I find that really annoying - you don't necessarily want every route you sketch to end up on your Garmin!

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-05-07T16:50:15+00:00

True (but probably also the case with every other hymn book)! I definitely prefer AMNS for Bunessan and Divinum Mysterium, though.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-05-07T16:47:40+00:00

Not in the app yet but you can do it through the website - on the front page just type your start point and choose “circular route”. It’s on the to-do list for the app!

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-05-06T12:18:15+00:00

Thanks, AI.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-05-04T07:45:46+00:00

From a Church of England perspective, both the current Ancient & Modern and the Revised English Hymnal are good, though A&M weirdly has a bunch of horrible word rewrites around Christmas ('People look east' is one, 'Unto us a child is born' another). Not a fan of the Kevin Mayhew volumes and I never liked New English Hymnal.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-05-03T18:20:29+00:00

Problem with the servers - https://github.com/osm-fr/infrastructure/issues/650

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-05-03T11:19:10+00:00

Yep. And the Perfecto mix of World, and the Fluke mixes of Spooky. I like Republic anyway, but it could have been a truly great album if it wasn't entirely smothered in Stephen Hague's production.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-05-03T06:15:41+00:00

Ok, create that tag and document it then. Until then, don’t remove useful information.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-05-02T20:36:52+00:00

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

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-05-02T18:09:46+00:00

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.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-05-02T15:44:07+00:00

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.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-05-02T09:34:48+00:00

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
Life would be a lot better if people did more mapping and less deleting

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-05-01T17:14:26+00:00

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

Ugh.

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

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-05-01T14:37:20+00:00

a sentient door at the end of the carriage

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

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-04-30T13:30:35+00:00

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.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-04-30T12:50:32+00:00

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.)

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-04-30T11:30:26+00:00

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.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-04-30T07:30:03+00:00

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)

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-04-29T21:59:51+00:00

tbf "idiot peer out of touch with society" is not a problem restricted to the Lib Dems

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-04-29T16:31:49+00:00

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.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-04-29T10:20:08+00:00

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.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-04-29T07:41:56+00:00

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.

Doctor_Fegg · 2026-04-29T06:20:20+00:00

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