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How can I easily map a bus route?
  • This is how I do it with iD and Relatify:

    1. Create all the bus stops in iD (that includes the bus stop sign location, and (importantly!) the bus stopping location on the road)
    2. Create a relation using iD using only the first two or three bus stops.
    3. Use Relatify to finish connecting the rest of the stops.
  • A decade after a disastrous launch, is Apple Maps finally good?
  • I read this this morning and was raging that they didn't mention OSM at all in it!!

    Wilmott worries that these maps, now dominant, lack information that more traditional maps like Britain’s Ordnance Survey (OS) still have: “An OS map shows you where a stile is for horses; I’m not sure Google Maps even knows what a stile is. When you’re surveying a space, you find that information but geo AI doesn’t have that information. I’m from Australia – you can look at a space where Google Maps might tell you to walk a route through tall long grass, but if you’re from a place you know: there will be snakes in there. Most of this kind of mapping, because it was developed out of urban maps, privileges urban information, not rural information.”

    OSM absolutely knows what a stile is.

  • Is there a sort of equivelant to Wikipedia for hiking trails?
  • Hi there, I was going to post this on your crosspost on [email protected] which is where I saw this first. I see that you're more of an end user rather than someone uploading this info, but I'm gonna dump my spiel regardless I'm afraid:

    If you are going to put this info somewhere I would suggest you dump the info on OpenStreetMap. The information you put onto OSM will get used EVERYWHERE else- komoot, alltrails, Osmand, Organic Maps, you name it. And the license is permissive so everyone else can use it. All Trails (to take an example) is all very well and good but all the nice pics, all the info, all your time and energy gets put into their nice little closed website which they then use to make THEIR website better and nobody else's!

    So at the very least, put the info you collect into OpenStreetMap first, and then elsewhere. There is a lot more info you can put into OSM than you may think at first glance. Width of trails, Trail difficulty, trail visibility, etc etc. All this gets put into tags. (even trail dangers if I remember correctly) This info then will improve the hiking experience for everyone using a mapping application around where you have mapped. (Everyone of course, except for people using google maps or apple maps, yuk!)

    Now this extra bit is tailored more towards your original question, as an end user. The closest thing I can think of is https://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/ as someone else put in here. The info, of course, comes from OSM. If the trail you are looking for isn't marked there, you can put it into OSM and it will eventually make it onto that website. (As well as Osmand, and Organic Maps, and Komoot, and... you get me)

  • How to configure my transmission to automatically bring up the VPN?
  • I know you're asking about transmission, but.. Qbittorrent has an option in the GUI that allows you to specify what network interface it uses to communicate through. Therefore if your VPN isn't up, it won't use your normal network. And if your VPN drops out, it also won't use your normal network. Just another option in case you're interested.

  • Cheap amazon grinder vs new brilliant cut grinder
  • Oh nice! That sounds really handy. My bottom threaded bit gets gummed up with the good stuff and it's also a (minor) pain to unscrew sometimes. I'll look into getting a better grinder, I'm still on an unbranded random one I got as a freebie once.

    That said, when I do end up buying a quality grinder I want it to be the final one I ever buy (unless I lose it). Therefore I was considering buying a two part one. Feels like a two part one could conceivably last me forever.. right?

    EDIT: okay I'm browsing their website now and they look really nice.

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  • Well I live in an area with little to no previous mapping and I'm practically the only person doing the area. It's good and bad at the same time! I can go for an extended survey and either literally put hamlets on the map, or go to towns with streets drawn in but no POIs. Or pore over satellite imagery and draw landuse in.. or paths... or lakes.... Neverending fun. I tell my friends it's like doing a geo-sudoku.