that feels rather “i don’t like politics”-y to me, i see no problem with shipping a default blocklist so long as it’s opt-in.

free, open source software developed by humans with emotions and opinions is allowed to do things the developers think can help the world be better, so long as it doesn’t cross the line into actively malicious: e.g. hardcoding blocklists and trying to hide that it exists.

many do have that, though. It’s just not within the scope of OSM (aside from routes, but even then that’s sort of borderline-ish)

There’s instead https://transitous.org/, which handles that stuff properly.

let’s not pretend like this is worse than the situation with reddit, this is like switching from pants filled with shit to pants that periodically piss themselves a bit

Yeah it’s not good, but good lord it’s so much better

incorrect: my instance is just the admin manually reading and outputting bits furiously, like the telegraph operator in Lucky Luke

sure, theoretically that’s true, but do you want to risk google suing you and ruining your life?

The point of OSM is to be spotless, the data is 99% legally unquestionable

also have a look at related projects Panoramax and Kartaview, not to mention that you can just upload photos of specific objects/areas to wikimedia commons (you should just have some sort of subject in mind, even if that subject is “this street”)

security by obscurity only made sense before we put high-resolution realtime spy satellites into orbit, and we covered our nations in hackable devices with cameras and sensors, and digitized documents containing sensitive information

It’s been quite a while since the security argument held any significant weight.

Yeah this is honestly something i’d like to see a whole project around, adding stuff like fences and bits of grass or whatever is such a dead simple way to make maps more intuitive, and almost impossible to do wrong

i think you need to reword this because i can’t figure out what you mean

blocklist.enabled = True

that sounds amazing, anyone with enough funds can just stop all traffic past schools! total urbanism win.

Do note that organic maps is not recommended any more, due to kerfuffle with the trademark holders wanting to be mean.
The Comaps fork is instead the recommended app these days, basically the same thing but with a slightly different coat of paint and with a better organizational structure behind it.

You seem to have fundamentally misunderstood what OSM is, OSM is not a platform like google maps.

The core OSM project is just an open database of geographical data, of what exists in real life. Things like navigation and satellite imagery are not part of this, that’s something separate that you add ontop of OSM.
And as part of the “open” part, any data added must be compatible with the odbl license, which means sources must first be verified as compatible, so any imports of government databases are oftentimes simply not legally possible and even if they are it’s something you have to do quasi-manually since it’s probably in a completely different format.

No one is talking about this because to anyone familiar with OSM this stuff is so obvious that they forget it isn’t obvious to anyone else.

if you’re saying words like “reactivity” and “rust” then yeah, you’re so vastly beyond my level of being willing to tolerate annoyance and complexity that godot isn’t for you.

I’m talking about people who use python because it’s almost possible to understand, for us mortals godot is hilariously much better than any other option. Just click some buttons, write the basic code you’re capable of, and press export and you get something that just fucking works! Amazing!

You know what’s funny? I’ve concluded that godotengine is probably the best option for people who just want to make a graphical program without having to spend more time learning the GUI part than the actual logic, and as a bonus you can use it to build for multiple platforms as well.

that raises a philosophical question, at what point does a backup become an archive?

it’s the kind of thing that should literally require 3 people turning physical keys at the same location

it’s like asking for alternative grocery stores, it entirely depends where you live.

i just completely ignore all news about new battery technology, i seriously do not see the point in paying attention until it’s actually available for purchase and people have tested it in real life.

at best it was a playground for people who are fundamentally fucked in the head, i’ve never understood how any normal person can tolerate it at all.