Good Morning, some news about Topoprint.ch, a service to transform any location in Switzerland into a Topodisc, a unique 3D-printable model of your favorite place.
https://blog.heuel.org/2025/05/updates-from-topoprint-designer-bridges-and-print-on-demand/

Finally! @leaflet, the venerable lightweight JS tilemap display library, is gearing up for a 2.0.0 release! 🎉

https://leafletjs.com/2025/05/18/leaflet-2.0.0-alpha.html

#Mapstodon #gischat #Leaflet #LeafletJS

Maps.black

https://maps.black

* Hosted in the EU with no tracking.
* Vector, raster, satellite & terrain tiles.
* everything available in PMTiles format!

@EvenRouault @ben Yeah, coding only twice would be far too easy!

@peter @AskASwiss To be fair, it's not clear if "her brother" refers to the brother of the niece or of the mother. If the former, then you can get 14, 41, 7 with all integers.

Reminder: Check the date today before you believe everything you read online. (actually maybe you should anyway never believe stuff you read online)

Edit: it may be April Fools Day, Mapstodon.Space isn't for sale and has no machiavelic plan of unfair AI training! Phew!

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🚀 Very pleased to announce that Mapstodon.Space has been acquired by Mapbox!

🗺️ As of May 1, Mapstodon.Space will be rebranded to MapSocialAI and will be accessible at https://MapSocial.ai.

💬 We'll have the mission to set-up a new LLM whose training data will be based exclusively on the conversation history of Mapstodon.Space and federated servers.

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@ebel Various random thoughts on this:
- programmer in German is Programmiererin (female), Programmierer (male), or Programmierer:in (gender neutral, pronounced with a glottal stop before the "in" suffix)
- people (who?) sometimes claim that you can also use "Programmierer" generically, and other genders should just understand that they are also being referred to ("mitgemeint")
- you could e.g. say that you used to be a Programmierer:in, or a Programmiererin (male mitgemeint)

@richardf Robin Hawkes was working on something similar a few years ago, it's still online at https://fogmap.robinhawkes.com

@djh For the Mapbox license, it looks like they at least thought about it, but came to an (IMHO) somewhat sketchy conclusion: Mapbox allows using Satellite Imagery for OSM tracing, so they assumed that you are also allowed to download and share it in an ML model used for OSM tracing. See the license section here: https://huggingface.co/datasets/mozilla-ai/osm-swimming-pools#satellite-images

New #OpenStreetMap idea: A routing profile that takes into account how many interesting sticks you will find on the way, so you know if your slowdown will be 2x or 10x when walking with children...

@klaskarlsson Do I get any points for recognizing Södermalm?

@scottjenson I have seen an attempt of a middle-ellipsis CSS hack in the wild on GitLab, but it's IMHO a bit flawed because it results in extra left-to-right mark (U+200E) chars when copy-pasting the filename.

@scottjenson There's a discussion on how to add this to CSS here: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3937

Sounds like there's lots of interesting little details to figure out.

There's also a CSS trick that (ab)uses text direction to get a similar result with the existing CSS text-overflow feature: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3937#issuecomment-496688096

Have you ever wanted to look inside the OSM map? Check out Jochen Topf's new OSM X-RAY!

It's OpenStreetMap vector tiles, with _all_ the data 💪 OSM X-RAY: http://test.osm2pgsql.org/

He wrote a good blog post explain all the details & trade offs and how it works: https://blog.jochentopf.com/2024-09-30-introducing-osm-xray.html

#OpenStreetMap #OSM #map #gis #data

@fil Very beautiful! Checking this out on my phone, I noticed one more detail: The NYT version jumps back to the latest data when I lift my finger, yours doesn't.

Unix hackers should be able to understand non-binary genders. The vast majority of people use emacs or vim, but a small percentage use a different editor.

Google Gemini Terms popup: "If your Gemini Apps Activity setting is on, Google stores your Gemini Apps activity"

Reality: "Haha, just kidding, what we mean is that we always store your activity. There is a setting, but you cannot turn it off."

#Google #Gemini #privacy

@br_data @levampyre Da gab's auch schon was in der NYTimes vor einigen Jahren: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

Und hier auch noch der Link zum Artikel aus der Schweiz: https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/tracking-mit-ortungsdiensten-der-spion-in-unseren-handys

@gka Counter-question: Which of the following are part of Europe? Russia, Cyprus, Turkey, Armenia, Greenland, French Guiana