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Die (Gemeinde)Grenzen der Schweiz
Ihr wisst ja, ich hab' einen OpenStreetMap-Fetisch 🙂 Schon sehr lange trage ich gemeinsam mit der Schweizer OSM-Community die Idee rum, dass die ~2000 erfassten Gemeindegrenzen in OpenStreetMap besser gepflegt werden sollten.
http://habi.gna.ch/2026/03/15/die-gmeindegrenzen-der-schweiz/
"High-throughput phenomics of global ant biodiversity", Katzke et al. 2026
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-026-03005-0
"within the open science initiative ‘Antscan’, we applied high-throughput synchrotron X-ray microtomography to capture phenotypes across a diverse and ecologically dominant insect group: ants. At https://www.antscan.info, we provide 2,193 whole-body three-dimensional ant datasets from 212 genera and 792 species to broadly cover the ant phylogeny with a global scope, also pairing phenomic data with genome sequencing projects."
Antscan is a publicly accessible database of synchrotron X-ray CT images of ants. The database covers almost 800 species from more than 200 genera and is coordinated with genome sequencing projects that will enable integrative analyses.
RE: https://en.osm.town/@openstreetmap/116165330892920654
Read this response from the #OpenStreetMap Foundation about an attempt to get a format from a few megacorps to be a global internet standard.
The world can be better than this. We don't have to just accept what the megacorps say. We don't have to just do what makes them money. We can make a map, and record, everyone in the world if they want. We can include everyone.
A new world can be born
OpenStreetMap old timers know about the infamous 2009 TIGER import of road data in the US that continues giving to this day. Our story has none of the, maybe deliberate, shenanigans (see the TIGER improvement project) that went on back then in the US, but there are clearly some similarities in the lessons that should be learnt.
Xikipedia, the Wikipedia doomscrolling "app", is now available as an actual app (PWA)!
Also:
- fully available offline
- algorithm saving/persistence (optional)
- multiple profiles
- light theme (optional)
- full english wikipedia links (optional)
- statistics screen
have fun!!
Recommended Readings vom Januar 2025
Im letzten Monat las ich folgende Texte und fand diese gut: My mom and Dr. DeepSeek (restofworld.org) : Dr. LLM hört immer und jederzeit zu. Und gibt meistens richtige Antworten. Eine grosse Umwälzung für Mediziner:innen. The Olivetti Company (abortretry.fail) : Schon vor einem Jahr hab' ich über Ivrea und Olivetti gelesen. Eine wirklich faszinierende Firma. In diesem Text geht es weniger um die sozial progressiven Hintergründe,…
https://habi.gna.ch/2026/02/04/recommended-readings-vom-januar-2025-2/
One of my highlights of yesterday's Mapping USA online conference was osm.kids, a map using #OpenStreetMap that's made for #children! If you're zoomed in, it highlights things like playgrounds, fire stations, schools and ice cream shops.
When you zoom out, you see city and country names and flags so you can learn all about those!
It is so creative and I love it. osm.kids demonstrates so well that you can make maps with OSM that you cannot make with any other map tools out there.
RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/115973849112167027
It's truly the most mindless thing and symptomatic for the "AI" bullshitters: OSM allows you to just download all the data in nice and simple snapshots. Instead, scrapers use thousands of residential IP addresses to query the service at zero benefit over the data dumps.
The people creating these systems understand as little as the "AI" they create.
Albert Cardona
Amᵃᵖanda | map data witch
Simon Poole
Rebane
Martijn van Exel
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras