In West-Germany we used a plethora of names: * "SBZ" -> Sowjetisch besetzte Zone -> sowjet occupied zone * "Ost-Zone" * "DDR" * "Ost-Deutschland" Almost no one spelled out "DDR" with "Deutsche Demokratische Republik",…
Fun thing: some people here in Germany act like there is no East Germany. For them it is "Middle Germany". As if we still had Schlesien and Pommern ... Look at radio stations. We have SWR: Süd-West Rundfunk (south west)…
> West Germany attempted to isolate East Germany with the so-called Hallstein Doctrine, which amounted to a pretty solid trade embargo. The first sentence is true, and is what I know. The second economical leg of this…
"is Socialism" ... not it's not. I'm always puzzled how bad education must have been to those people putting the stamp "socialism" on everything they don't like. Socialism is a political ideology centered (it's really…
Human traits? The AI will be a cruel as humans. Just yesterday news and TV was full of what happened at 9/11, something that was truly horrible. I'm from Germany, and why 3 to 4 generations ago happened here was truly…
If we look at this in a non US-centric view, then many other areas have solved this, partially since decades. For example, in Germany we used to have a bank card, "EC Karte", it is now called "Girocard". So, if you are…
Weird title. Cargography constantly challenged itself. Look at some of the possible projections at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projections They all compromise on something to enhance something else. You simply…
Mercator already did compromise on area and length to have "rhumb lines" (used for navigation, but also direction finding) be straight. Other map projections (we have hundreds!) compromise on other things to improve on…
This question is nonsensical. Canada is not ONE identity. It's millions of people, hundred thousands of companies and organizations. Go and ask them individually. Also, the UN voted to use this map for itself and…
Well, the underlying thinking "only people I directly voted for can do things" is wrong. I guess you never directly voted for your minister of economy, or? In many countries people don't directly vote for the prime…
And people have no idea how diverse the cultures in Africa are.
> Mercator useful for sailing+ It is also used by the military (or at least NATO). They use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_... While most of that system is a way to tag coordinates that are…
That's such a weird statement. The word "equal" has been used in maths since centuries without any baggage at all. And since a projection (how to project the surface of a sphere onto a flat surface) is a mathematical…
Well, the poster wrote in the tone that "federal money" is used in europe for health. And that is clearly wrong. Fun fact: few countries in europe are even a federation. So I guess the poster was exceptionally…
Well, that impression is wrong. The german word for "Taxes" is "Steuer". And they go to one of the 3 levels of our government: Federal level, the 16 states, municipalities / communes. And yes, we pay VAT (19%) and…
It's so cute the US readers throw all of europe into one basket. The economically biggest european nation, Germany, has a health system where the federal government spent almost no money on health care. We have…
The very sad state of the US democracy, especially how they do elections, was even fodder to a german language book "König von Deutschland" (King of Germany) by Andreas Eschbach. In the fictive story, it is the year…
"If it's a mistake, it should course-correct" Maybe, or maybe not. The thing is, that "mistake" isn't something that is generally valid. For example, the enshittification of Google Search through the last 15 years seems…
"The anti-nuclear crowd" well, that is needlessly inflammatory. Did you ever realize that -- at least a part -- of their arguments might have a stance? We have tons of political decisions to do in every country where…
Fine, I do this since several decades. I use an editor-construction kit named "Emacs" to build my own Editor, and IDE, and git porcelain, and organizer, and wiki. And many things more. IDE with e.g. LSP integration,…
OsmAnd already can store an unlimited amount of POIs locally. With text, icon, color, coordinates of corse.
StreetComplete has a but of gamification. Only internal, for you. But still. It works by giving you points and achievements. And as you progress, the achievement give you popups with links to interesing OSM-data-using…
Well, California is 423'970 km². And Germany is 357' 684 km². I only use OsmAnd, not CoMaps. So almost the same size. The street card of Germany is 2848 MB, so even larger than the number you gave. We also have cards…
On Android an application can register a custom URL scheme. And the OS has a way for you to select which app should work with a clicked custom URL if several of them registered to e.g. "geo:"
Related your point 1: I even want local notes. Once I walked around with SCEE or Streetcomplete ... and I added a note. And then the note was public on OpenStreetMap. I meant it as a note to me, so that I later could…
In West-Germany we used a plethora of names: * "SBZ" -> Sowjetisch besetzte Zone -> sowjet occupied zone * "Ost-Zone" * "DDR" * "Ost-Deutschland" Almost no one spelled out "DDR" with "Deutsche Demokratische Republik",…
Fun thing: some people here in Germany act like there is no East Germany. For them it is "Middle Germany". As if we still had Schlesien and Pommern ... Look at radio stations. We have SWR: Süd-West Rundfunk (south west)…
> West Germany attempted to isolate East Germany with the so-called Hallstein Doctrine, which amounted to a pretty solid trade embargo. The first sentence is true, and is what I know. The second economical leg of this…
"is Socialism" ... not it's not. I'm always puzzled how bad education must have been to those people putting the stamp "socialism" on everything they don't like. Socialism is a political ideology centered (it's really…
Human traits? The AI will be a cruel as humans. Just yesterday news and TV was full of what happened at 9/11, something that was truly horrible. I'm from Germany, and why 3 to 4 generations ago happened here was truly…
If we look at this in a non US-centric view, then many other areas have solved this, partially since decades. For example, in Germany we used to have a bank card, "EC Karte", it is now called "Girocard". So, if you are…
Weird title. Cargography constantly challenged itself. Look at some of the possible projections at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projections They all compromise on something to enhance something else. You simply…
Mercator already did compromise on area and length to have "rhumb lines" (used for navigation, but also direction finding) be straight. Other map projections (we have hundreds!) compromise on other things to improve on…
This question is nonsensical. Canada is not ONE identity. It's millions of people, hundred thousands of companies and organizations. Go and ask them individually. Also, the UN voted to use this map for itself and…
Well, the underlying thinking "only people I directly voted for can do things" is wrong. I guess you never directly voted for your minister of economy, or? In many countries people don't directly vote for the prime…
And people have no idea how diverse the cultures in Africa are.
> Mercator useful for sailing+ It is also used by the military (or at least NATO). They use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_... While most of that system is a way to tag coordinates that are…
That's such a weird statement. The word "equal" has been used in maths since centuries without any baggage at all. And since a projection (how to project the surface of a sphere onto a flat surface) is a mathematical…
Well, the poster wrote in the tone that "federal money" is used in europe for health. And that is clearly wrong. Fun fact: few countries in europe are even a federation. So I guess the poster was exceptionally…
Well, that impression is wrong. The german word for "Taxes" is "Steuer". And they go to one of the 3 levels of our government: Federal level, the 16 states, municipalities / communes. And yes, we pay VAT (19%) and…
It's so cute the US readers throw all of europe into one basket. The economically biggest european nation, Germany, has a health system where the federal government spent almost no money on health care. We have…
The very sad state of the US democracy, especially how they do elections, was even fodder to a german language book "König von Deutschland" (King of Germany) by Andreas Eschbach. In the fictive story, it is the year…
"If it's a mistake, it should course-correct" Maybe, or maybe not. The thing is, that "mistake" isn't something that is generally valid. For example, the enshittification of Google Search through the last 15 years seems…
"The anti-nuclear crowd" well, that is needlessly inflammatory. Did you ever realize that -- at least a part -- of their arguments might have a stance? We have tons of political decisions to do in every country where…
Fine, I do this since several decades. I use an editor-construction kit named "Emacs" to build my own Editor, and IDE, and git porcelain, and organizer, and wiki. And many things more. IDE with e.g. LSP integration,…
OsmAnd already can store an unlimited amount of POIs locally. With text, icon, color, coordinates of corse.
StreetComplete has a but of gamification. Only internal, for you. But still. It works by giving you points and achievements. And as you progress, the achievement give you popups with links to interesing OSM-data-using…
Well, California is 423'970 km². And Germany is 357' 684 km². I only use OsmAnd, not CoMaps. So almost the same size. The street card of Germany is 2848 MB, so even larger than the number you gave. We also have cards…
On Android an application can register a custom URL scheme. And the OS has a way for you to select which app should work with a clicked custom URL if several of them registered to e.g. "geo:"
Related your point 1: I even want local notes. Once I walked around with SCEE or Streetcomplete ... and I added a note. And then the note was public on OpenStreetMap. I meant it as a note to me, so that I later could…