Mapped: A fifth of downtown Richmond is dedicated to parking lots https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2023/08/23/richmond-downtown-parking-lots

Just blocked a psychic.

She shoulda seen that one coming tbh

#RVA #BikeShare is back and we've removed the disused=yes tag from the #OpenStreetMap nodes for docking stations! https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/140188819

@enobacon

Join us at our next meeting on Aug 23 at Legend Brewing https://osmcal.org/event/2279/

The worst thing about Mastodon is how much everyone talks about Twitter.

Very disappointed to hear that @sotm will be held in Kenya, where it's illegal to be gay. More disappointed to see how much these concerns are brushed off by the organizing committee 😞

Oh.

Oh no.
#foraging #FunghiFriday #Mushtodon #Funghi

Right now if you search for "country in Africa that starts with the letter K":

- DuckDuckGo will link to an alphabetical list of countries in Africa which includes Kenya.

- Google, as the first hit, links to a ChatGPT transcript where it claims that there are none, and summarizes to say the same.

This is because ChatGPT at some point ingested this popular joke:

"There are no countries in Africa that start with K."
"What about Kenya?"
"Kenya suck deez nuts?"

Google Search is over.

Looks like the global conference of the #OpenStreetMap community, State of the Map (SotM), will be held in a place where it's illegal to be gay & trans.

🙄🙄🙄
#OpenStreetMap #OSM
<https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2023/08/14/announcing-state-of-the-map-2024-september-6-to-8-2024-join-us-in-nairobi-and-online/>

We've hit 11% completion after just a couple weeks of mapping Richmond's sidewalks. We're mostly armchair mapping using satellite imagery & bing streetside imagery. Join us! If anything needs a survey, we can tackle that in the validation phase. https://tasks.openstreetmap.us/projects/438

The fact that some people I work with still have this guy’s comics up at their desks is very off-putting.

I used to, they were engineering-related and we kind of all did like 15 years ago. Then he went off the deep end and I threw that shit away.

Here’s a recent gem of a tweet 🙄

That's a screenshot of Overpass Ultra at the top of this weeks @weeklyOSM!

This curve of US Pedestrian Fatalities is shocking. 22 people being killed per day!

But why call them Pedestrian Fatalities? Walking isn't what killed them.

In line with other violence, we should call them Car Fatalities. And address the source instead of the victim.

you know a street design is horseshit when no matter how clear and bright the weather the only way you see any people crossing it is scurrying