• Metaphysika@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    I don’t recommend Google Maps anymore. It’s a really shitty map. I’ve been reporting bugs for ages and they never fix them. Also the GPS is really terrible, it sets the road full of constant turns and forces you to drive on small narrow internal roads instead of normal open roads. The localisation option sucks too, it keeps showing me that I’m somewhere else and my position is always a few metres off and it’s so delayed that you don’t know if you’ve made a good turn or not unless you wait like half a minute. Also the glitches in the map, missing locations, blurry photos, random photos swapped around and extreme inconsistencies. It’s crazy that this shit is still being used. I bought a dedicated GPS for a car and in my phone and PC, I use OpenStreetMaps or its forks.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    I have a tiny penis. But I know a guy who has my real penis. I call his penis my penis. Trust me guys, its big!

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      If this was a different admin, it was an international agreement and the name change was to refer to the the continent, I’d be on board. As it stands, this looks like the sort of BS power play the CCP does with the South China Sea.

  • GuitarSon2024@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Reminds me a lot of after 9/11 when they tried to change French Fries to Freedom fries. That stuck about as well as water on teflon.

  • atomdmac@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    The Left: its called an Allow List now, you racists! The Right: its called the Gulf of America, you commies!

    Jesus, we’re pathetic.

    • SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world
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      25 days ago

      One is propaganda made up by right wing nerds and one is the president of fucking america if you didnt catch how silly you were being right now

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      25 days ago

      Nobody calls it that though. No one who is actually left-wing thought that calling them blacklist / white list was offensive.

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        25 days ago

        Is this another of those things where someone wrote some mild Substack post about “maybe the phrase black list does imply black = bad” that maybe five people read before conservatives decided that it represents the ideological position of all leftists?

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      26 days ago

      I support this.

      But we should probably at least have a conversation with Mexico about it, since something like half of their country borders it. IDK, I failed geography.

    • ChaoAmber@feddit.uk
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      27 days ago

      Open Street Maps needs more contributors!

      Been playing the StreetComplete game, which is very much Pokemon Go but helping OSM data.

      • reev@sh.itjust.works
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        27 days ago

        OSM unfortunately doesn’t seem public transit friendly at all. I did a quick glance over some of the documentation and it mentioned:

        Whilst OpenStreetMap is probably not the place for full timetable information, adding information about public transport infrastructure and services to the map means that we can provide basic routing services.

        Timetables are a must if you realistically want to use it for public transit. Currently it just tells me to walk to my destination for an hour and a half if I select public transportation. This is the main thing keeping me from using OSM.

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          26 days ago

          Well, the ball is in the court of the public transport agencies, then! While OpenStreetMap cannot be expected to accept any and all kind of geographic data imaginable, OSM is meant to serve map data that can supplement other data sources and services.

          I’m in Finland, and there’s at least a couple of Web services that do long distance bus/rail/plane route planning, all using OSM. Our municipal bus schedule service, mobile app and the bus stop displays have been using OSM for over a decade.