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  • costs producing and publishing it.

    That is pretty much zero no days though. The only real cost is time.

    I mean yes, they will need a computer. They might need lighting if they are on camera, but from then on, zilch. You could do it with a cell phone for video.

    I have a kid that published their music with videos, and there is no cost at all, using all the free tools available.



  • I mean that’s where this conversation started: osm works fine if you already know where you’re going.

    Except in places where I know where I want to get to but don’t know how to get there, OSM most of the time is better than Google. So many examples of this for me, over and over again. It is just more up to date.

    Specifics too, things like trails, parking, alternative routes, all better.

    The traffic is a thing I suppose but every where I have been like I said it rarely saves any time.

    Maybe it is because I travel through a lot of different places and countries.



  • I don’t think that is a straw man argument at all.

    Traffic doesn’t do me much good if the roads are not correct in the first place, and OSM is usually more up to date. I noticed traffic data is not as significant as people seem to think it is, and since everyone is rerouting it ends up being a wash most of the time anyways.

    Search works fine for addresses, and you don’t have to use maps, it could be anything: reviews, blog posts, nightlife calendars, whatever.

    OSM works because YOU add data to the map. I agree that I would like vendors and even cities to update OSM so add data and make it more valuable for them to do so too.


  • It is a trade off though.

    I may not be able to see the “nearest restaurants with reviews of 4 stars that are open now with no wait times” BUT I have been so many places where google or apple had not updated the map yet and only OSM got me where I was going.

    So maybe it is fine to open a commercial map or local review site, or blog, or web page, that is not tracking you for store discovery, then put the address in OSM to actually get there.

    And take the time to use street complete when you can, it is really easy and fills in things like hours open, accessibility, etc.









  • Star Trek seems pretty good in this regard. Discovery went ary but it was fun while it was good. Strange New Worlds is fantastic, Lower Decks takes a very different view of the universe for fun, and Picard was a decent enough story with some good stakes.

    The movies suck ass though, particularly Abrams.

    Star Wars on the other hand could just go away and I would not care. I saw New Hope in 77 and loved it. Looking back; not a great movie. And it was downhill from there.

    Which is it shouldn’t have been. There have been better books than anything produced by Lucas or Disney.