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Enough gloom and doom for now.
I just updated the #OpenStreetMap contributor stats at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats#Contributor_statistics_reports for Q2 2026. And yes, we have an all time high in monthly contributors, surpassing the likely pandemic driven peak in early 2021. And next month might be even better.
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Dog-fooding the upcoming @vespucci_editor download along a linear feature, for example an #OpenStreetMap way, functionality.
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Enough gloom and doom for now.
I just updated the #OpenStreetMap contributor stats at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats#Contributor_statistics_reports for Q2 2026. And yes, we have an all time high in monthly contributors, surpassing the likely pandemic driven peak in e…
And there's a corresponding peak in the monthly edits
Trying to get used to a new make of trackball (the buttons on the last Kensingston started bouncing after just 2 years, and I'm not a gamer so overall "light use"), not really successfully up to now. But maybe that's just old age on my beh…
RE: https://en.osm.town/@vespucci_editor/116917678180924926
As most of the time not very spectacular but still a lot of work.
For example this works around another bunch of edge-to-edge issues,. A result of an Android architectural change…
Nice peak in new #OpenStreetMap mappers over the last couple of days https://osmstats.neis-one.org/?item=members HN maybe?
Dog-fooding the upcoming @vespucci_editor download along a linear feature, for example an #OpenStreetMap way, functionality.
... and that typically wouldn't bind somebody that isn't party to the contract, you might run in to issues with competition law, but a lot of that is very very jurisdiction dependent. IANAL but I suspect that it would boil down to removin…
... that is: absolutely hopeless.
Using 'AI' to fix Android bugs is just as good as using stackoverflow ...
As I mentioned in the post, cadastre ("Amtliche Vermessung") data is another rabbit hole. For example the canton Thurgau claims on the one hand that the AV vector data is available on CC-BY 4.0 terms (which isn't #OpenStreetMap compatible …
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