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New comment by pietervdvn in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

pietervdvn — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:56:09 +0000

As an OpenStreetMap-contributor: you have to add attribution as per our license agreement: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

CartoDB packages this data into tiles you can use, but that doesn't lift this requirement.

New comment by pietervdvn in "OpenGridWorks: The Electricity Infrasctructure, Mapped"

pietervdvn — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:24:52 +0000

Give https://mapcomplete.org/infrastructure a try

New comment by pietervdvn in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

pietervdvn — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:14:12 +0000

I don't like them as well. On this site, you can disable them with the checkbox on the top-right

New comment by pietervdvn in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

pietervdvn — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:52:35 +0000

Your idea has been implemented as datapods: https://www.capitalnumbers.com/blog/data-pod-decentralized-d...

It seems dead though...

New comment by pietervdvn in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"

pietervdvn — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:49:51 +0000

You can use https://mapcomplete.org/surveillance to delete the cameras from OSM

New comment by pietervdvn in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"

pietervdvn — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:42:49 +0000

If you spot missing camera's - Flock or not - you can add them to OSM easily with https://mapcomplete.org/surveillance

New comment by pietervdvn in "Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog"

pietervdvn — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:46:05 +0000

Stupid question, but CORS is designed explicitly to defend against this type of side-surf attack. Adding a strict cors policy should fix this, or am I missing something?

New comment by pietervdvn in "Opentrees.org (2024)"

pietervdvn — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:58:08 +0000

OpenStreetMap also gathers tree data: https://mapcomplete.org/trees

We're around 31M trees now

New comment by pietervdvn in "Ski map artist James Niehues, the 'Monet of the mountains' (2021)"

pietervdvn — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:05:14 +0000

OpenStreetMap has ski trails. OsmAnd even has a ski routing engine. Also checkout https://mapcomplete.org/ski

New comment by pietervdvn in "Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing"

pietervdvn — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:09:46 +0000

We do take down a lot of old buildings (or renovate them thoroughly) cause the old buildings contain asbestos, are not properly isolated, ...

New comment by pietervdvn in "The GitHub website is slow on Safari"

pietervdvn — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:45:32 +0000

My forgejo-server ran on a broken fiber for a few weeks - we're talking about speeds in the single kilobits/s. It kept up fairly well!

Pushes and pulls would still kinda work, actions not so much (but that's cause it needed to transfer more then 100MB)

New comment by pietervdvn in "Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels"

pietervdvn — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:39:37 +0000

Even better: if the build is reproducable, it guarantees that the source code of the repo is the same as the version that is distributed by FDroid.

New comment by pietervdvn in "Building Bluesky comments for my blog"

pietervdvn — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 10:32:19 +0000

Except that it got around 2.9K reviews by now, which is more then you have right now. Furthermore, we shouldn't further fragment the few open source review efforts we have.

Many OSM apps will also be reluctant to adopt a closed source solution that might be closed of any moment. And under what licenses will those reviews be? As MapComplete developer, I can not and will not be adopting a system based on Bluesky

New comment by pietervdvn in "Building Bluesky comments for my blog"

pietervdvn — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 22:47:09 +0000

Wait, what? Please don't do that, use mangrove.reviews instead please. They use clear CC-BY-SA licenses; MapComplete.org uses it

Bluesky _will_ enshittify sooner or later

New comment by pietervdvn in "The Danish Ministry of Digitalization Is Switching to Linux and LibreOffice"

pietervdvn — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:34:52 +0000

As such a maintainer: you hit the nail on the head.

Add to that an infinite stream of bug reports and feature requests, and it gets tiring. I don't even have the time to answer all bug reports...

New comment by pietervdvn in "MapTCHA, the open-source CAPTCHA that improves OpenStreetMap [video]"

pietervdvn — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:36:29 +0000

OpenRailwayMap is OpenStreetMap-data, it just highlights the railway data and hides the other data.

New comment by pietervdvn in "RIP botsin.space"

pietervdvn — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 22:35:32 +0000

RIP!

Thanks for hosting this all those years. I'll try to find a new home for my bot.

New comment by pietervdvn in "OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20"

pietervdvn — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 17:36:15 +0000

Another way to contribute is my project https://mapcomplete.org

I'm trying to build a somewhat generic map view, which features many thematic maps (e.g. shops, restaurants, bicycle pumps, toilets, ...)

Most data comes from OpenStreetMap, but it also allows to make changes, upload pictures, show wikipedia or make reviews with mangrove.Reviews

New comment by pietervdvn in "OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20"

pietervdvn — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 09:24:29 +0000

It depends on what exactly you want. Google Maps does more then just being a map, such as navigation, streetview, reviews,...

In either case, I've heard quite some people being in love with Qwant Maps.

And I try to get to build specialized maps with https://mapcomplete.org

New comment by pietervdvn in "OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20"

pietervdvn — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 09:22:07 +0000

I'm trying to build this with https://mapcomplete.org