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I would not mind doing either R on R, Javascript or PostgreSQL.</div><div>I found the talk on PGSQL last week very interesting at Smile.</div><div>I have just started with a couple of projects with PostgreSQL.</div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Joan.<br></div><div>============</div><div>
"Is this something that anyone here would be interested in? There are<br>
lost of different technologies that you could work on:<br>
* Ruby on Rails<br>
* Javascript<br>
* PostgreSQL"
<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 5:21 PM Andrew Sullivan Cant <<a href="mailto:acant@alumni.uwaterloo.ca">acant@alumni.uwaterloo.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hurray for an OSM post. :)<br>
<br>
I noticed that the CBC website, through MapBox, and The Record site,<br>
through Tableau, have both used OSM for some maps.<br>
<br>
*<br>
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/van-crash-yonge-finch-witnesses-1.4631972" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/van-crash-yonge-finch-witnesses-1.4631972</a><br>
* <a href="https://www.therecord.com/news-story/8670548-schools-struggle-to-go-green/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.therecord.com/news-story/8670548-schools-struggle-to-go-green/</a><br>
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<br>
And since Paul made a feature request, I will mention that I am hoping<br>
to organize some FLOSS contribution through KWRuby, and the OSM website<br>
seems like it might be a good candidate project.<br>
<br>
> <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website</a><br>
<br>
Is this something that anyone here would be interested in? There are<br>
lost of different technologies that you could work on:<br>
* Ruby on Rails<br>
* Javascript<br>
* PostgreSQL<br>
<br>
And I just noticed that there is translation work to be done as well!<br>
> <a href="https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:OpenStreetMap" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:OpenStreetMap</a><br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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On 2018-06-20 1:12 PM, Chamunks wrote:<br>
> I actually have my <a href="https://rain-alarm.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rain-alarm.com</a> pro app set to using OSM<br>
> instead of Google maps. I am definitely a huge Google Maps content<br>
> participant ( one of their top photographers with almost 4 million views<br>
> on my photos ) but I really like the way that OSM is coming along and<br>
> generally prefer it when I can.<br>
> <br>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 9:36 AM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc<br>
> <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> For all my scripts turning Google calendars into newsletters and<br>
> booking meetings at Google community spaces, I actually try to use<br>
> alternatives to Google's services as much as possible.<br>
> <br>
> Maps have been a headache. Several years ago I tried OpenStreetMap and<br>
> it was pretty terrible. Finding locations was difficult, and I could<br>
> not figure out how to do route planning. Then I tried MapQuest, and<br>
> honestly it was pretty terrible too. So I kept falling back to Google<br>
> Maps when looking for unfamiliar routes.<br>
> <br>
> I tried OpenStreetMap again the other day and it is much better. I<br>
> find that I have to include provinces when looking up things<br>
> ("Kitchener, Ontario" instead of "Kitchener") but the search interface<br>
> actually finds locations now. Furthermore the interface supports route<br>
> planning well enough that I can judge the distance between locations,<br>
> which is mostly what I want (I don't care much for turn-by-turn<br>
> directions. I have paper maps and can read them myself).<br>
> <br>
> The one feature I miss are the elevation graphs that Google produces<br>
> for a route. OpenStreetMap knows about elevations and tells me total<br>
> ascents and descents, but does not graph them out. Oh well.<br>
> <br>
> It is nice that OpenStreetMap has gotten much better, because Google<br>
> Maps has gotten much worse. It has fallen prey to "click in the wrong<br>
> place and something both unexpected and unpleasant happens" syndrome,<br>
> and also "this website is getting too slow for my computer" syndrome.<br>
> Such is the modern web, I guess.<br>
> <br>
> - Paul<br>
> <br>
> -- <br>
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