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Re: Simpler Command Line Tools for Everyone - The Mapillary Blog

jaakkoh — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 15:30:51 -0000

Great to see development of mapillary_tools that simplifies their use.

My problem is -- as was before -- that I run into problems installing the mapillary_tools.

How could I get support for getting them installed so that I could upload my some hundreds of thousands of photos that I've taken with my action cams over time?

Re: Google Earth Map Overlays

jaakkoh — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 01:54:13 -0000

Big thanks for these wonderful packs of map layers that include so many of the numerous OpenStreetMap-based layers. This is really a great service that I hope gets more publicity as it helps put OSM at the hands of so many people that use GE.

Thanks also for your latest addition of three more Thunderforest styles (by Andy Allan). Great additions.

Now, two suggestions and a request:

* You might want to move the currently named "Cycle Map" layer under Thunderforest in your next version as it's also a "Thunderforest style" (by Andy Allan) and rename it to OpenCycleMap, which Andy uses for it.

* It would be great and also inline with the licenses / use permissions of the map styles to include appropriate map (tiles) license information (that would include attribution and note of the license under which the different OSM maps are offered for reuse and distribution).

While the relatively new ODbL license of the OSM data allows nowadays to publish maps created with OSM data under traditional restrictive licenses I think that all of the maps you have included here are licensed under a permissive license or at least there's some sort of fair use clause for their use that allow using these. But the license and the attribution should be included in the layers and visible (clearly enough).

You already have very good attribution on the pages of the individual map styles and the grouping of the layers in the layer pack indicate attribution (including the use of the logos). But I think the license would be an appropriate addition and would be good to follow the styles consistently.

From the top of my mind I think that there would be three good places for the attribution/license info: i) these web pages (as you already have for attribution), ii) the Properties > Description box for each of the map layer (that currently have the URL to the info page of the given layer) and finally it would also be great and appropriate -- and I think many would argue that also required -- to include the info in the map browsing window. E.g. OpenLayers plugin for QGIS does this nowadays automatically albeit the info is not perfect for all available layers. But the MapQuest OSM style is a prime example of attribution and license statement done right. (Lower right corner gets a text of "Data, imagery and map information provided by [MapQuest], [OpenStreetMap], and contributors, [CC-BY-SA]" where [] brackets indicate corresponding hyperlinks).

I would be happy to help you figure out an appropriate placing of the license and attribution if you want/need help.

Lastly,

* It would be great to see the Humanitarian map style added to your layers. The style was developed originally as part of one Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team mapping project to function as a general map style with a twist/focus for the needs of humanitarian and international development work. But it's really a general style well suited for many needs. The style is available at https://github.com/hotosm/H... , the tiles are globally created and available via the French OSM community's server http://layers.openstreetmap... and they are also available among others at osm.org . If you have any questions regarding this don't hesitate to contact me or yohanboniface (the main developer and maintainer of the style).

Again, BIG thanks for this wonderful set of map layers! Look forward to inclusion of more good layers and the tweaking of the attributions/license notes.

Re: External Blues Redux: Apps Still Have A Loophole For Writing To The SD Card On KitKat, But For How Long?

jaakkoh — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 22:21:03 -0000

I think you hit the nail on the head here. I've lived in two different developing countries for a total of four years now and while I get most "ground wide" through local techies it's clear to me that given the local realities in poorer countries external SD cards will be needed -- and demanded by the market for foreseeable future.

This is not only Q of purchase power to buy more expensive models with more out-of-box storage but also how unreliable + expensive the data connections are, which lead to need for storing various things locally and less cloud usage -- and this will continue for quite a while I'm pretty sure.

Time will tell, of course. But given where the smartphone growth comes and especially will come from don't expect that the game is over for SD cards (even on Android).

Re: Manual Upload

jaakkoh — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:21:33 -0000

BTW. If anyone knows of a decent piece of software for manually tagging photos with compass direction please do share the info. I've just recently found digiKam and am loving its super powerful capability of showing (even many thousands of) geotagged on the map. My dream solution would be one that would be integrated into this wonderful piece of FOSS software that also runs on Windows and I guess Mac too.

Re: Manual Upload

jaakkoh — Thu, 01 May 2014 01:48:52 -0000

I too would like to see and suggest that you'd make it possible to upload photos without direction in the metadata at the point of upload. You could even show the photos on the map with a dot in the pin in stead of the "direction angle". .. And while we all would prefer that those uploaded "undirectional" photos would get tagged with direction wouldn't it be better to get things kickstarted with geotagged photos w/out the direction?
If you make this possible I'd like to upload all my geotagged photos (of street and other scenes) to Mapillary (and would hope that some sort of mass upload would be possible too).

Re: New York Times - Bypassing Google Maps - Spatially Adjusted

jaakkoh — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:06:58 -0000

Good resource for anyone considering switching to OSM or just understanding better what this is all about: http://www.switch2osm.org

Re: Jere Majava

jaakkoh — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:08:13 -0000

Kiitokset mainioista sivuhuomioista!

Re: daryn's tumblelog - CNAMES vs. A-Records for Custom Domain Names

jaakkoh — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:06:30 -0000

I was wondering about the A record (vs. CNAME) issue myself. My internal burning question was more about "How can I set up the A record thing but only assign a subdomain and not the whole thing?" than why did they do it in the first place, though.

But it seems that there's a reason for switching to A record(-based) way. David wrote in the official Tumblr (WordPress) blog when the change was made: "Switched custom domain hosting from CNAMEs to Static-IP to allow root domains".

Now, in case there are others with the same problem I had: how to set up a custom domain for your Tumblr blog using a CNAME / not mapping your whole domain to Tumblr, the answer to that is very simple:

Just create a CNAME you want and point that to tumblr.com - after which you need to tell Tumblr to point your tumblr blog to your new sub-domain as instructed at http://www.tumblr.com/docs/... .

The Tumblr folks could articulate this in the custom domains page, though. Now they're only saying that they fully support sub-domains (w/out telling how).

Re: Google Password Assistance email - training phishing targets?

jaakkoh — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:15:34 -0000

@acodring : I think you're dead on with the oddity/bad practice of the Google Password Assistance email. I was wondering (and googling) about this myself.

Maybe they should at least explain a bit what happens if I click the link:

* Does clicking the link by itself change my password to whatever someone has changed or does it allow me to change it (which I think is the case - but which I really don't want to try..).

* Why it's ok to click the link this time and only this time...

((... Testing the tweeting of Disqus comments - I wonder how it tweets them? .. I'm assuming 120 or so characters + a link to the disqus page ... Only one way to find out.))

Re: Running your own vanity OpenID provider is a horrible idea

jaakkoh — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:56:37 -0000

You can use any of your Blogger blog URLs as an OpenID. Add the (free) option to use a custom URL and you can see that Blogger OpenID combines the best of the both worlds: Have a big and stable player handle your OpenID but use your own URL.

I think that using your own domain (or a domain controlled by someone that you really, really trust will not lock you into undesired things) is not just a good idea but in the longer run it's the only good idea - and the fact that Google offers it for free makes it doubly nice.

I also think that Google offering custom domain OpenID for free means that in the longer run there will always be someone who will offer the service for free (with decent terms). Now, this may be obvious to geeks (and I haven't looked into the OpenID delegation well enough to understand if that ensures the same thing) but since I just recently realized this whole thing I figured that there are also those who haven't yet realized this.

E.g. http://blogtemplate20.blogs... provides details on how to set things up (see the link to previous post for nitty gritty).

Re: http://nxsy.org/redirecting-from-confluence-to-mediawiki-part-4

jaakkoh — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:57:30 -0000

Thanks!

Re: http://nxsy.org/redirecting-from-confluence-to-mediawiki-part-4

jaakkoh — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:33:13 -0000

Hmm. Unfortunately the "migrating from confluence to Mediawiki " links don't work anymore. ... Would you happen to know if/where the posts are available - would you happen a copy in your archives?

Thanks!