Scooter Feb 7
Okay, hivemind, here's a bit of a poser. Where would I go about finding paper street #maps for an area? I'd like to know where I'm going in my Duesenberg Special...

Seriously, having a paper backup in the car for possible can't-reach-the-internet situations seems like a very low cost, no-risk solution. And let's say there are some doubts which have arisen as of late concerning information infrastructure.

ADC used to have maps for all the counties in the area, and I had a huge passel of them in the car, but that seems to have gone the way of the dodo.

Downloading what I'm likely to need onto a device is another way, but a larger form factor might be more useful.

#StreetMaps

EDITED TO ADD: Go ahead and send this around for visibility. If I hit upon something, I'll cancel the boost request.
Paul Chambers🚧May 10, 2025

I missed this from 404 media a couple weeks ago.

Mini internet box that comes preloaded with offline backups of #Wikipedia, #streetMaps, survivalist information, 90,000 WikiHow guides, iFixit repair guides, government website backups (including FEMA guides and National Institutes of Health backups), TED Talks about farming and survivalism, 60,000 ebooks and various other content being sold.

"It’s part external hard drive, part local hotspot antenna—the box runs on a Raspberry Pi that allows up to 20 devices to connect to it over wifi or wired connections, and can store and run additional content that users store on it. It doesn't store a lot of content (either 256GB or 512GB), but what makes it different from buying any external hard drive is that it comes preloaded with..." offline backups of some of the content that is being deleted or altered by Trump Administration.

Also includes
Khan Academy Lite, an Interactive lessons and videos on Math, History, Biology, Computer Programming and more

Medical Pack, Wiki Med, National Library of Medicine, Military Medicine Guide

Project Guttenberg 60,000 e-books

The costs range from $200 to $350, with the latter having an offline AI chatbot included.

🔗 Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump
https://www.404media.co/sales-of-hard-drives-prepper-disk-for-the-end-of-the-world-have-boomed-under-trump/

Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump

PrepperDisk is a mini internet box that comes preloaded with offline backups of some of the content that is being deleted by the administration.

404 Media
Show threadBernardDec 19, 2024
@Luuk_Aalders 8 year old children shot twice, one bullet in their hart, a second one in the side of their head. Almost exclusively childeren.... Israël is commiting warcrimes at ww2 scale. What the nazi's did to woman and childeren with gas chambers the zionist do with #USA supplied 2000pound guided bombs and snipers. Targets picked with #streetmaps by #Google. For millions worth of "cloud service contracts'.
Zbigniew 'Emill' Pławecki ♿️🎮Mar 17, 2023

Zainspirowany artykulem, ktory wklejam ponizej, postanowilem sprawdzic #MapyBing i... szczeka mi opadla 😲 Zdjecia satelitarne Katowic z 2022, podczas gdy #Google dalej opiera sie chyba na wspomnianym w artykule 2018... Przy najblizszej okazji zobacze jak wyglada porownanie nawigacji - chociaz na pewno Microsoftowi brakuje odpowiednika #StreetMaps - jako ♿ mega czesto z tej funkcji korzystam

Najpierw #BingAI, teraz to - oj #Google, Google - jak tak dalej pojdzie to zostaniecie w ogonie 😜

https://bezprawnik.pl/google-maps-zaczelo-sobie-odpuszczac-mapy/

Szkoda, że Google Maps zaczęło sobie odpuszczać mapy. Sklepy Żabka coraz częściej dryfują w próżni

Google Maps to fenomenalna usługa, korzystam z niej każdego dnia, ale nie mogę się też oprzeć wrażeniu, że ktoś tam spoczął na laurach.  Trudno mi powiedzieć z czego to wynika – czy to jakaś celowa zmiana polityki, szukanie oszczędności, a może coraz większe opory ze strony osób anektujących sobie prawo do mówienia, gdzie przebiega granica […]

Bezprawnik
BlitzenDec 20, 2022

Hey y'all what interchange is this? Image is from 2012 or earlier

#ATL #urbanism #plat #streetMaps #streetMap #atlanta

https://mastodon.world/@urbandata/109532159676206226

Mark Abraham (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image The entire city of Florence, Italy could fit within this highway interchange in Atlanta. https://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/06/13/the-whole-city-of-florence-could-fit-inside-an-atlanta-interchange/ #firenze #urbanplanning #urbanism #highwayremoval #cities #walkability #sustainability #climatecrisis #sprawl #atlanta

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FediFollows has moved!Jul 2, 2022

MapComplete is a web-based OpenStreetMap graphical inteface which lets you view themed maps and edit them with an OSM ID. You can follow at:

➡️ @MapComplete

The project's website is at https://mapcomplete.osm.be

MapComplete runs on free open source software, the source is at https://github.com/pietervdvn/MapComplete

#MapComplete #OpenStreetMap #OSM #Map #Maps #Mapping #StreetMap #StreetMaps #Travel #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

Soh Kam YungJun 9, 2022

Grab is also OpenStreetMap's largest SE Asia contributor.

"Singapore's Uber equivalent, Grab, has decided to offer its homegrown maps as a service and asserts it will offer faster and more accurate spatial services than the likes of Google and HERE Technologies.
[...]
Grab used open source OpenStreetMap (OSM) and to date is the largest contributor to the project in Southeast Asia."

https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/09/grab_maps_as_a_service/

#Maps #OpenStreetMaps #Singapore #SouthEastAsia #StreetMaps

Singapore's Grab enters maps-as-a-service market

Takes on global players with data sourced from customers, plus paid contributions from delivery drivers

The Register
Shawn WebbJun 14, 2019

Has anyone looked into automatically and programmatically attempting to identify sensitive information within a #Google #StreetMaps image?

For example, look for computer equipment, terminals, personnel, etc. even within buildings with one-sided windows.

#Privacy #OSINT #OPSEC #infosec

matlMay 14, 2017

Is there a page with a list, which data is available on #openstreetmaps and how I can access this data?

More detailed I'd like to know if there are for example different categories about restaurants, hotels, shops and so on including their coordinates of course?
#question #opensource #streetmaps