Inspired by Google's move to remove @organicmaps from the Playstore without warning, I finally decided to move my > 3,000 Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps. To facilitate doing this for others' benefit, I made a quick webpage to convert your Google Maps GeoJSON data to GPX and KMZ files that render well in Organic Maps.

https://rudokemper.github.io/google-maps-places-to-organic-maps/

If you are blind and you have the spoons, can you let me know if you use the terminal on Linux and if so which one? If you use the terminal, do you use a screenreader plugin or a specific external screenreader on Linux?

I wrote a terminal UI program for kubernetes that has voice assistance and I want to test it myself with a normal workflow that a disabled user would follow.

I am also willing to pay if you want to test it. Read further down in this thread if you want more info.

Edit again: wasn't expecting to get any feedback but I got some already and I really appreciate it! I will be doing more testing and research in the coming weeks 💙

#a11y #foss #accessbility

On the extremely low off-chance there are any archivists or trainee archivists in the UK here thinking about doing the Archive and Records Association's professional registration scheme, I've just passed the assessment for it and I'm hoping to be a mentor for somebody else's application. Happy to have a casual chat about it if you're not sure...https://www.archives.org.uk/ara-professional-development-programme

#archives #archivists #libraries #ARA #ArchivesAndRecordsAssociation #GLAM @archivistodon

The new Yoker-Renfrew Bridge across the Clyde. Officially opened yesterday, it won't actually come into use until midday today. I think I'm right in saying this is Scotland's first vehicular swing bridge across the Atlantic Ocean (well, a small arm of it at any rate!).

#glasgow #clydebank #renfrew #bridge #theclyde