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Finally an xkcd comic about OSM 👀

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/21076796

> xkcd #2977: Three Kinds of Research > > alt text: > > > The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.' > > https://explainxkcd.com/2977/

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OSM: Where zoos look like zoos
social.lol Henry (@hl@social.lol)

Attached: 2 images Glad to see the great job @openstreetmap@en.osm.town and @organicmaps@fosstodon.org are doing. For cycling to the zoo's main entrance, where I can buy entry, they suggest a sensible route. #Google maps seems to suggest I go through the zoo, possibly via the tiger cage. #OSM #Op...

Henry (@hl@social.lol)

>Henry@hl@social.lol > > Glad to see the great job @openstreetmap and @organicmaps are doing. For cycling to the zoo's main entrance, where I can buy entry, they suggest a sensible route. #Google maps seems to suggest I go through the zoo, possibly via the tiger cage. > >https://social.lol/@hl/113047359789803891

>Dawid Rejowski@didek@101010.pl > >@hl @openstreetmap @organicmaps > >Also somehow ZOO looks more like a ZOO. > >Here I needed a while to understand what is that place. Only after reading the labels I understood it is the center of Warsaw, a place that should be one of the most recognizable places in Poland.\ >Compared to OragnicMaps, with rich colors, colorful Metro icons, building shapes and rails, Google Maps looks very blended. > >https://101010.pl/@didek/113050389244877936

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Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store
fosstodon.org Organic Maps (@organicmaps@fosstodon.org)

Attached: 1 image Last night Organic Maps was removed from the Play Store without any warnings or additional details due to "not meeting the requirements for the Family Program". Compared to Google Maps and other maps apps rated for 3+ age, there are no ads or in-app purchases in Organic Maps. We h...

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18747630

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Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store
fosstodon.org Organic Maps (@organicmaps@fosstodon.org)

Attached: 1 image Last night Organic Maps was removed from the Play Store without any warnings or additional details due to "not meeting the requirements for the Family Program". Compared to Google Maps and other maps apps rated for 3+ age, there are no ads or in-app purchases in Organic Maps. We h...

Organic Maps (@organicmaps@fosstodon.org)
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ATMs are becoming a shit-show in Europe. Can cash back save us? Info is sparse as fuck.
  • Cash back is simply to use a cashier at a store as a sort of ATM to withdraw money. Example: You buy groceries and when you go to pay with your card you ask for some amount of cash back. Your card will be charged for your groceries + the amount that you asked in cash, that you get as physical money.

  • xkcd #2956: Number Line Branch

    https://xkcd.com/2956

    Alt text: > Attention all passengers: This is an express sequence to infinity. If your stop is not a power of two, please disembark now.

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    xkcd #2949: Network Configuration

    https://xkcd.com/2949

    Alt text: > If you repeatedly rerun the development of technological civilization, it turns out that for some reason the only constant is that there is always a networking utility called 'netcat', though it does a different thing in each one.

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    xkcd #2945: Broken Model

    https://xkcd.com/2945

    > In addition to eating foxes, rabbits can eat grass. The grass also eats foxes. Our equations chart the contours of Fox Hell.

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    xkcd #2944: Magnet Fishing

    https://xkcd.com/2944

    Alt text: > The ten-way tie was judged a ten-way tie, so no one won the grand prize, a rare fishing monopole.

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    xkcd #2943: Unsolved Chemistry Problems

    https://xkcd.com/2943

    Alt text: > I'm an H⁺ denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for 'pretend'.

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    xkcd #2941: Cell Organelles

    https://xkcd.com/2941

    Alt text: > It's believed that Golgi was originally an independent organism who was eventually absorbed into our cells, where he began work on his Apparatus.

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    xkcd #2939: Complexity Analysis

    https://xkcd.com/2939

    Alt text: > PERPETUALLY OPTIMISTIC CASE: Early in the execution, our research group makes a breakthrough on proving P=NP.

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    xkcd #2938: Local Group

    https://xkcd.com/2938

    Alt text: > Cosmologists estimate the spaghetti strand to be about 200 septillion calories, though it could be higher depending on the nutritional value of dark matter.

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    xkcd #2936: Exponential Growth

    https://xkcd.com/2936

    Alt text: > Karpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end.

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    xkcd #2935: Ocean Loop

    https://xkcd.com/2935

    Alt text: > I can't believe they wouldn't even let me hold a vote among the passengers about whether to try the loop.

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    xkcd #2934: Bloom Filter

    https://xkcd.com/2934

    Alt text: > Sometimes, you can tell Bloom filters are the wrong tool for the job, but when they're the right one you can never be sure.

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    xkcd #2933: Elementary Physics Paths

    https://xkcd.com/2933

    Alt text: >\==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'

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    xkcd #2932: Driving PSA

    https://xkcd.com/2932

    Alt text: > This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.

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    xkcd #2931: Chasing

    https://xkcd.com/2931

    Alt text: > Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley.

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    xkcd #2930: Google Solar Cycle

    https://xkcd.com/2930

    Alt text: > From Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and 'hangover cure' is 14 hours.

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