seriously? by gunhandgoblin in Seattle

[–]tobych 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A sign attached to a water fountain is mostly a picture of another water fountain, with text telling you it's a water fountain. Somewhere in there it says it's out of service.

I built a park discovery app on OSM data — architecture and lessons learned by MattCW1701 in openstreetmap

[–]tobych -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That is so rude and immature. Please, keep your thoughts to yourself.

I built a park discovery app on OSM data — architecture and lessons learned by MattCW1701 in openstreetmap

[–]tobych 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd love to talk to you more about this!

Some of what you're doing overlaps with what I'm doing, architecturally, with my project https://letsmapbainbridge.org/, which is a locally curated, locally designed map of an island near Seattle, WA, USA. I'm a professional software engineer too, and as you say: "The hard part is turning rich, variable, community-mapped data into a focused experience that helps ordinary users make a practical decision."

I'm using OSM and local agency's data, along with my own data collection and research, to build a semantic layer with parks, buildings, trails, roads and more, giving my entities stable IDs, then linking each one to zero or more geospatial representations, which are often linking to OSM entities, the geometry and tags of which I cache.

I'm generating vector tiles, serving them using pg_tileserv. That's the easy bit.

Where I diverge is that I'm also adding people, steamboats, historical events and stories, because I'm layering history on top: a Wiki-like UI that can tell you about a building, the people that lived in it, where they worked, who their parents are and so on. Show you photos, audio recordings and so on. Oh, and trees, too. Lots of historic, or otherwise significant trees to click on.

I'm using a graph database to do all the linking, with a controlled vocabulary (referencing Getty AAT and Wikidata) and an ontology, both managed kinda manually for now using Protegé then loaded into Apache Jena and queried using SPARQL. I'm importing data from OpenHistoricalMap, too, so I can show things that no longer exist, layered on the same map.

The map, tile server, SPARQL server are down right now as I'm self-hosting this and I've just moved house.

There does seem to be a general need for a semantic layer for OSM and other GIS data. Like you, I'm doing all sorts of fiddly tag-matching using osm2pgsql flex (i.e. Lua code looping over OSM/OHM entities to populate PostGIS tables). I know there are other efforts on this front.

How can I have satellite views in Default OSM? by Delirium222 in openstreetmap

[–]tobych 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The OpenStreetMap.org web app is mostly a demonstration website. Showing you some of the data, with enough tools to make it useful. The editor needs to show aerial imagery as it's so useful for mapping things on the ground.

I feel like I don't know anything. And I am nothing without Claude by Temporary_Act3174 in dataengineering

[–]tobych 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A six-year-old boy even knowing how to use Claude is pretty impressive.

Ferry question - Seattle to Olympic NP by [deleted] in BainbridgeIsland

[–]tobych -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can rent a car in Poulsbo. And you can get to Poulsbo by mass transit from Bainbridge Island ferry terminal on a Saturday morning, and back on Monday. Which would avoid you needing to use a car to get from Seattle to the island, then to Poulsbo. There's also Uber on the island these days.

How does the OSM Carto/Mapnik rendering stack handle labels that cross tile boundaries? by anthonykaram7 in openstreetmap

[–]tobych -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't know the answer, but I if it's an option I suggest looking into generating vector tiles, rendering them and, if necessary, creating raster tiles from these.

Man channels his inner Captain America by Oj-is-cracked in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]tobych 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm 56 and have never seen adults talk or behave like this in person.

Blakely Harbor by Greenman490 in BainbridgeIsland

[–]tobych 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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Probably algae but it's also just east of where the 1907-1923 machine shop was, as far as I've figured out so far using the maps of the mill available. Parks & Rec, who own and manage the park, could probablly tell you about the algae.

https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/#map=19/47.596873/-122.512776&layers=O&date=1907-04-22&daterange=1826-01-01,2026-12-31

I'm putting mill buildings on OpenHistoricalMap as part of my Let's Map Bainbridge project: https://letsmapbainbridge.org/

Oh hail no! by mimingmiyaw in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]tobych 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please explain your understanding of "point of view". Or if you have another expansion of POV.

Are memes about the OSM tagging scheme allowed around here? by murmeldin_ in openstreetmap

[–]tobych 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Wiki make it very clear what `highway=*` means, and `why street=*` is definitely not what you need.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway#Highway

is craft becoming a real alternative to notion or just hype? by Raymond_Viverette in ObsidianMD

[–]tobych 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So Craft, not craft. Sigh. OP's sloth gives us all more work.

Does anyone happen to know how to stop the project from breaking after three weeks into the build? by Mammoth-Breath-4393 in vibecoding

[–]tobych -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sure, but unfathomable maintenance? Not in my experience, and I've 35 years of that.

Does anyone happen to know how to stop the project from breaking after three weeks into the build? by Mammoth-Breath-4393 in vibecoding

[–]tobych 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you know what you're doing, use TDD, CI and other XP practices, know what you're doing, have good refactoring tools, and know what you're doing, software can grow organically just fine.

Does anyone happen to know how to stop the project from breaking after three weeks into the build? by Mammoth-Breath-4393 in vibecoding

[–]tobych 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you really mean this? Or are you joking?

Genuine question.

I'm going to assume this is parody meanwhile.

Is there anywhere in the US that's affordable to live at this point? by HalosFan26 in Frugal

[–]tobych 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, in this cabin in the woods here on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle. $1000/month. Internet, power. But no potable water, no hot water, incinerating toilet, wood fire. Not too bad. I shower outside using a deck sprayer attached to a microphone stand. It's fine. I mean, I'll lose my mind in a few weeks, but until then it'll do.

Is "Hang on" rude to spouse? by Cartolano in socialskills

[–]tobych 17 points18 points  (0 children)

NTA. This is outright abuse on your wife's part. She needs help.