Full stack software engineer. Violinist, advocate for walkable cities and people on bikes, dancer, OpenStreetMap contributor.
@jmbmkn The multi-modal bike+transit routing option was great, even though it didn’t offer turn-by-turn of the bike segment.
I believe Citymapper uses (or used?) the Cyclestreets.net bike routing algorithm (which uses OSM). Last I did a deep dive this seemed about as good as bike routes get - with quiet / medium / fast route options. I’ve been doing plenty of Valhalla experiments but am always looking for good client apps.
I’ll have a look at Cyclers, thanks!
I’m sorry - 349 partners? Why does Citymapper need to allow that many adtech companies to “use cookies and similar technologies” to “store and access” … “precise geolocation data”?
I was (until today) a paying customer and even wrote a popular blog post recommending them a few years back - this is extremely disappointing.
What OSM-based transit & bike routing should I switch to?
#citymapper #cookies
#eu #publictransport #osm #openstreetmap
(See also post by @duncan_bayne)
Oh! and Chapel St in South Yarra is now 30km/h. That's a big win.
“The City of Melbourne is proposing to spend more on Christmas decorations than it will on building new protected bike lanes”
https://us20.campaign-archive.com/?u=25306f8369bf8399926edf41f&id=f7b2faa8af
Streets Alive Darebin: June Newsletter 2025
✅ Melbourne bike lanes in draft budget
✅ Darebin Council's Free Bike check-ups
✅ Two Petitions: WeCycle + Thornbury road safety audit
✅ @CriticalMassMelb update
✅ @3CRMelbourne @yarrabike Radiothon
➡️ http://eepurl.com/jg5StQ
From Solidarity to cycling: Velo-city 2025 in Gdańsk was full of cycling conversations, panel discussions and a festive cycling parade through the city. My blog post and video are now up.
https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/velo-city-2025-in-gdansk-a-global-cycling-summit/
Threads expands open social web integrations with fediverse feed, user profile search https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/threads-expands-open-social-web-integrations-with-fediverse-feed-user-profile-search/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
And some dude wrote in The Guardian a week ago that night trains were often poor. And now he’s living it himself 🤪 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/11/europe-was-promised-a-new-golden-age-of-the-night-train-why-are-we-still-waiting
Hm. A "proof of concept" pull request that adds "preliminary ActivityPub support" to Bluesky.
https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/pull/3943
Screenshots via https://bsky.app/profile/distraction.engineer/post/3lql7jiqaac2a
Headline: Organic #Maps Forked Over Governance Concerns: #CoMaps is Born
@Steveg58 Interesting. From a brief search I couldn’t find any info about their involvement or any trial as such.
Europeans and Barcelonans - does anyone know how an Australian-looking traffic signal ended up on the eastern side of the Plaça de Catalunya?!
It appears to be the only example in the entire city. The knowledgeable folks in the AU Rail & Road signals Discord think it’s an Aldridge model with a hexagonal LED pattern only found in South Australia (#SA) - they haven’t spotted a single other Aldridge model in the #EU.
#Oops Due to the ongoing case New York Times v #OpenAI, you cannot really delete your #ChatGPT prompts and conversations as the court has ordered [1] on 13th of May that *all* logs must be stored until further notice. OpenAI is furious as that means "including sensitive personal information, proprietary business data, and internal government documents" [2]. The court is not impressed [3] and sticks to the order.
[1] https://steigerlegal.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250513-openai-gericht-verfuegung.pdf
[2] https://steigerlegal.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250514-openai-antrag-schreiben-gericht.pdf
[3] https://steigerlegal.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/20250516-openai-gericht-ablehnung.pdf
![Letter from OpenAI to the court
This is particularly concerning because the Order requires a massive disruption to commonplace data retention practices that have nothing to do with this litigation. News Plaintiffs have repeatedly characterized the data in question as data OpenAI “destro[ys].” But, in reality, the data OpenAI does not retain is (1) data that OpenAI’s users elect not to retain, including ChatGPT conversations users specifically choose to delete; and (2) data that OpenAI agrees not to retain under either its negotiated agreements or general business terms with its customers. OpenAI commits not to retain this data for a simple reason: because millions of individuals, businesses, and other organizations use OpenAI’s services in a way that implicates uniquely private information—including sensitive personal information, proprietary business data, and internal government documents.
The Order prohibits OpenAI from honoring this commitment by (e.g.) forbidding OpenAI from complying with a user’s attempt to delete a conversation about a family member’s health condition
or immigration status. That will harm not only OpenAI, but also the hundreds of millions of users who rely on its services. That counsels in favor of reconsideration, particularly when the Order
requires preservation of data that will not actually advance this litigation.](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/114/533/794/784/174/150/original/32077e022a391e48.png)
I'm at the stage where I wish I got a split keyboard built in into my laptop. @pjacock this looks like it fits your interests, both in terms of keyboards but also linguistically!
Summer is coming and it's peak #Interrail and #Eurail season
And as ever this means lots of headaches with reservations, timetables and things not working
I have updated my Interrail Tips post, so start with that https://jonworth.eu/interrail-tips-and-tricks/
And if you're stuck, ASK! There are dozens of us here who'll happily help!
CoMaps Android preview release is out! 🎉
Powered by the community ❤️
For now as a downloadable apk only, get it at https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/releases
The release will be available on F-Droid @fdroidorg soon :fdroid:
And we're working on Google Play and AppStore releases 🛠️
I've written this analysis piece based on TfNSW GIPA 25T-1420, which you may have seen this morning in the Sydney Morning Herald.
I hope you find it helpful to understand the project.
System prompts often hint at some pretty funny bugs that the prompt tries to paper over:
"Search results aren't from the human - do not thank the user for results"
Interesting article on #TheVerge about #openstreetmap 🗺️ encouraging gamers playing transport simulations 🚋 for fun to contribute back:
https://www.theverge.com/games/672035/openstreetmap-data-games
Creating open-licensed data has always surprised - from flight simulators to these transport sims, OSM is a real example of "scratch your itch"-type collaboration.
I've only been contributing since 2007, so am still learning and finding new stuff to add. 🙂
