OpenCage 👉🌍In today's episode of why geocoding is hard - there are five paces in Germany named "Straße" (street)
Graham Rhind
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International name and address data knowledge provider. Unlikely linguist. Migrant. He/him/his.
mtmail5 places (villages) in Germany are named "Straße" ('street'). Add to the list of geocoding challenges. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stra%C3%9Fe_%28N%C3%BCmbrecht%29?uselang=en
Linguist Gone Foreign 🌏Posts from Germans announcing plans to emigrate because they’re unhappy with Germany “letting so many migrants into the country”. The irony does most of the work, peak white privilege does the rest.
What living abroad for two decades has taught me is the limits of effort.
You can speak the language flawlessly, figure out the system, follow every rule, live by local customs, even hold the nationality of your chosen country; it still won’t change the fact that you will be treated as the outsider.
The whole integration tale is basically the migrant version of meritocracy. You’re told that if you work hard enough, you’ll belong, but the goalposts were never designed to move.
An Italian software company wishing me, in Germany, a happy Thanksgiving. Why!? Are people really that culturally blinkered?
Currently grcdi.nl and all related sites, including the Global Sourcebook, are down due to an error by our service provider. This can last until tomorrow. Apologies for this.
𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"I like immigrants.
I like their food.
I like their language.
I like their work ethic.
I like their culture.
I like their music.
I like their dance.
I like their art.
I like that they are different than me.
I cannot be the only person who feels this way.
I like their food.
I like their language.
I like their work ethic.
I like their culture.
I like their music.
I like their dance.
I like their art.
I like that they are different than me.
I cannot be the only person who feels this way.
MostlyHarmlessMy son told me he was awarded the Leslie Neilson badge at school. I asked “What's that?” He said, “It's a big building with lots of kids, but that's not important right now.”
In today's episode of why geocoding is hard ...
Bikepath "A9om!pad" (yes, with exclamation point in the name)
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1061541606#map=17/52.329360/4.795786&layers=T
via René Dings on bluesky @rndngs.bsky.social
Anil DashImagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/
