As others have mention you seem to fundamentally misunderstand what openstreetmap is. Openstreetmap can enable things that other map providers simply can't, such as quick, crowd-sourced updating of maps in disaster areas
It's rare I actually get to highlight a US example of this, since the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team seems to find it uninteresting, but I managed to source aerial imagery through the OK GIS community and get to mapping tornado damage after the Moore tornado within hours, and OSM was already putting out data to get traffic moving around it rather than through when I 35 went local traffic only for months after the storm.
Hell, if you go by Google Maps in the midwest, you'd have no idea things have changed and in some cases some entire interstates have moved since the 2000 Census before you encounter it in person. Google Maps is often in worse shape today than OSM was in 2006 outside the 10 biggest metros in the US.
Theft by Google seems to be a growing concern; many users have been suspecting this for some time now. You might want to contact data@openstreetmap.org or post to talk@openstreetmap.org if you can prove it, since Google clearly isn't falling within OSM's license right now if that's the case.
It's not entirely arbitrary, anymore than the distinction is in reality. And it does help filter out irrelevant results if you end up having to figure it by nearest intersection.
Osmand~ on the F-Droid market is my preferred choice. Almost overfeatured bike/hike/car nav app that's got the groundwork in place to go transit, motorcycle and large vehicle as well in the future.
I honestly can't remember the last time Google Maps was remotely right. But then again, it's been six years since I lived in Portland, and everywhere else I've been since then, Google's been somewhere between flat out wrong or just not available. And I haven't even left the US since 2009.
I'm not aware of an official OSM app, however, there's Osmand~ from F-Droid, and it does offline routing just fine; I used to work as a field service engineer for a Unisys contractor and it was my primary means of navigation in a three-state area, mostly because Google Maps is horribly out of date anywhere but the 10 biggest metros and actually works offline.
Clearly, the son had shit he did not wish to share, with family, or otherwise. Be it GLBTQ, furry, sci-fi, Dr. Who, Mystery Men, Office Space, or Other, clearly, the deceased didn't feel it was necessary to come out, so unless their final wishes were privy to you, respect their wishes. And trust their judgement. Seriously, there's opinions older than I am now from family online that would rather not know that I live in Oklahoma with my boyfriend. Even knowing that it's pretty much a $5 and 45 minute process for us to get married. But enough of my problems...seriously, come out or get off the pot. Literally. If you can't deal with it, stop dragging it out and break up. If you can, let your folks know. It's not 1998 anymore.
And I say this as someone who moved to Tulsa to get away from Portland's homophobic culture that punishes anyone who isn't heteronormative or white, based on actual experience as a bisexual Cherokee who grew up native to NE PDX and later Beaverton...Oregon has no room for anyone who isn't willing to work for far less money than it costs to live there, especially if they aren't all Euro-white, cis-gendered, straight, and willing to go against anybody who isn't a heteronormative, white, straight, male, european-descended person. Seriously, google "Whitest city in America" and realise that it doesn't get any better in any state in the Pacific or Mountain time zones...
Seriously, it's 2015. I literally have better shit to do than go to the store during the same hours I'm fucking stuck at work, to get waffles, milk, cheese, bread, ice cream, yogurt, beef, chicken, turkey and bison. I would literally hire my local milkman if I wasn't too far, for literally all of this shit. And if he could finish my grocery list, "and then some." Seriously, Jesus fucking Christ, how is it I'm in 2015 and I'm still dependent on European half-ancestors to get this through people's heads that I like basics like fish and bread and will pay a subscription for it? Is America _really_ this backwards? Are we really this Bed, Bath and Beyond comprehension? Fuuuck me in the goat ass...
So, still gonna have to play a LOT of catchup on this. Shiny hardware is nothing without an application for it. OpenSimulator and Linden Lab are solving this equation from the other end.
Yup, being a dick to public transportation users, cyclists, delivery drivers and everyone else because your price fixing racket's getting some competition is totally the way to handle the situation.
...now my senator (fucktard Tom Coburn) is going to start claiming climate change is a good thing, even while birds explode midflight in August from the heat.
This opens up a good point - I'm all in favor of taking criminal history into account, so long as we're talking relevant history.
Take your example - if I'm hiring you to drive in the company car, then DUI (and worse, reckless driving) are relevant crimes. But if the job was "show up, sit in cubicle, keep servers running", without driving as part of the job? Then what do I care?
And even then, depends on the company and whether or not they're going to let you prove you're capable of managing your shit properly. My last job was as field service engineer, and it seemed like the entire field service crew all had a DUI on their record. But, as long as you show up to work sober and get shit done, they couldn't care less what you did off hours.
Seriously? This deep in the thread? And nobody's gone for the classic? Fine, I'll get it started...
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Nominatim doesn't know where you're zoomed in. Narrow your search terms. Searching for "Starbucks, Seattle" finds dozens. How am I finding the address and you're not?
Slashdot Mirror
Depends on which renderer you filter the data through. Fun fact, when Google Maps doesn't know where you are, it decides you want to look at the center of the universe, no joke. So, let's compare three different OSM renderings (OpenBusMap, Mapnik (the standard layer on osm.org), and MapQuest Open (the version you see on open.mapquest.com) against Google Maps in Google's favorite spot. Google just can't keep up...
As others have mention you seem to fundamentally misunderstand what openstreetmap is. Openstreetmap can enable things that other map providers simply can't, such as quick, crowd-sourced updating of maps in disaster areas
It's rare I actually get to highlight a US example of this, since the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team seems to find it uninteresting, but I managed to source aerial imagery through the OK GIS community and get to mapping tornado damage after the Moore tornado within hours, and OSM was already putting out data to get traffic moving around it rather than through when I 35 went local traffic only for months after the storm.
Hell, if you go by Google Maps in the midwest, you'd have no idea things have changed and in some cases some entire interstates have moved since the 2000 Census before you encounter it in person. Google Maps is often in worse shape today than OSM was in 2006 outside the 10 biggest metros in the US.
Theft by Google seems to be a growing concern; many users have been suspecting this for some time now. You might want to contact data@openstreetmap.org or post to talk@openstreetmap.org if you can prove it, since Google clearly isn't falling within OSM's license right now if that's the case.
It's not entirely arbitrary, anymore than the distinction is in reality. And it does help filter out irrelevant results if you end up having to figure it by nearest intersection.
So go to osm.org and fix it.
No, it doesn't. However, offline address lookups only work if someone's actually put the addresses into the map. Consider doing that.
Osmand~ on the F-Droid market is my preferred choice. Almost overfeatured bike/hike/car nav app that's got the groundwork in place to go transit, motorcycle and large vehicle as well in the future.
Weird thing is, almost everything Waze does, Scout by TeleNav does using open data.
I honestly can't remember the last time Google Maps was remotely right. But then again, it's been six years since I lived in Portland, and everywhere else I've been since then, Google's been somewhere between flat out wrong or just not available. And I haven't even left the US since 2009.
I'm not aware of an official OSM app, however, there's Osmand~ from F-Droid, and it does offline routing just fine; I used to work as a field service engineer for a Unisys contractor and it was my primary means of navigation in a three-state area, mostly because Google Maps is horribly out of date anywhere but the 10 biggest metros and actually works offline.
Clearly, the son had shit he did not wish to share, with family, or otherwise. Be it GLBTQ, furry, sci-fi, Dr. Who, Mystery Men, Office Space, or Other, clearly, the deceased didn't feel it was necessary to come out, so unless their final wishes were privy to you, respect their wishes. And trust their judgement. Seriously, there's opinions older than I am now from family online that would rather not know that I live in Oklahoma with my boyfriend. Even knowing that it's pretty much a $5 and 45 minute process for us to get married. But enough of my problems...seriously, come out or get off the pot. Literally. If you can't deal with it, stop dragging it out and break up. If you can, let your folks know. It's not 1998 anymore. And I say this as someone who moved to Tulsa to get away from Portland's homophobic culture that punishes anyone who isn't heteronormative or white, based on actual experience as a bisexual Cherokee who grew up native to NE PDX and later Beaverton...Oregon has no room for anyone who isn't willing to work for far less money than it costs to live there, especially if they aren't all Euro-white, cis-gendered, straight, and willing to go against anybody who isn't a heteronormative, white, straight, male, european-descended person. Seriously, google "Whitest city in America" and realise that it doesn't get any better in any state in the Pacific or Mountain time zones...
Seriously, it's 2015. I literally have better shit to do than go to the store during the same hours I'm fucking stuck at work, to get waffles, milk, cheese, bread, ice cream, yogurt, beef, chicken, turkey and bison. I would literally hire my local milkman if I wasn't too far, for literally all of this shit. And if he could finish my grocery list, "and then some." Seriously, Jesus fucking Christ, how is it I'm in 2015 and I'm still dependent on European half-ancestors to get this through people's heads that I like basics like fish and bread and will pay a subscription for it? Is America _really_ this backwards? Are we really this Bed, Bath and Beyond comprehension? Fuuuck me in the goat ass...
So, still gonna have to play a LOT of catchup on this. Shiny hardware is nothing without an application for it. OpenSimulator and Linden Lab are solving this equation from the other end.
Seriously, my mind is blown here.
Yup, being a dick to public transportation users, cyclists, delivery drivers and everyone else because your price fixing racket's getting some competition is totally the way to handle the situation.
...now my senator (fucktard Tom Coburn) is going to start claiming climate change is a good thing, even while birds explode midflight in August from the heat.
This opens up a good point - I'm all in favor of taking criminal history into account, so long as we're talking relevant history.
Take your example - if I'm hiring you to drive in the company car, then DUI (and worse, reckless driving) are relevant crimes. But if the job was "show up, sit in cubicle, keep servers running", without driving as part of the job? Then what do I care?
And even then, depends on the company and whether or not they're going to let you prove you're capable of managing your shit properly. My last job was as field service engineer, and it seemed like the entire field service crew all had a DUI on their record. But, as long as you show up to work sober and get shit done, they couldn't care less what you did off hours.
Heck, when I was working as a field service engineer, you'd think it was mandatory that everyone had one DUI on their record at that company...
Weird. I've worked as a field service engineer and now work in a NOC since my conviction. Wasn't really an issue.
Seriously? This deep in the thread? And nobody's gone for the classic? Fine, I'll get it started...
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
This is the comment I came here to post.
ob-Debian GNU/KFreeBSD is dying...
Nominatim doesn't know where you're zoomed in. Narrow your search terms. Searching for "Starbucks, Seattle" finds dozens. How am I finding the address and you're not?
I'd take some unpaid time off work to drive the getaway car.