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2024-09-08 18:01:12

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Some ten+ years ago there was a way to set up sieve rules in Thunderbird with an addin jf I recall correctly — and once set up that worked quite well. But it's a bit of the hacky kind.
There really should be a way ro have Thunderbird's junk scoring move mails automatically.

2024-07-09 17:57:29

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Interesting! Can this perhaps be used for fingerprinting? 👀

2024-07-09 17:57:29

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Interesting! Can this perhaps be used for fingerprinting? 👀

2024-06-17 22:05:46

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And that ends this thread on OpenStreetMap.
In summary
- Underlying OpenStreetMap is a database
- The OpenStreetMap website is a demo only
- To a lot of folks it's not obvious that the OpenStreetMap website is just a demo showcasing what could be accomplished with the data. Even here on Mastodon in our nerd bubble this is not obvious.
- Communication around that could be improved; and communication around vandalism and what it means if you see it on the website's map could be improved.
6/6

2024-06-17 22:01:56

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Most production apps using OpenStreetMap (Komoot, Cycle Travel, Strava, etc.) take snapshots of the OpenStreetMap database and have mechanisms in place to run quality control, fix/update/revert snapshots and run their own modifications before end users will see a beautiful map.
That means most end users will hopefully not see any vandalism except those who treat the OpenStreetMap website as a reasonably usable app.
5/n

2024-06-17 21:58:27

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But wait! Why don't we first get the OpenStreetMap database through quality control and then re-render the map?
And here is where user expectations and reality are clashing.
https://www.openstreetmap.org
is not meant as a user-friendly map or app or anything regular users are supposed to use.
It's simply a demo of what the OpenStreetMap data could produce but not meant for end users.
Turns out that's not what most users expect.
4/n

2024-06-17 21:54:19

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That means:
- data can be in the OpenStreetMap database but not yet rendered on the map
- data can be still on the map but already fixed in the OpenStreetMap database
and it's due to caching and re-rendering that the underlying OpenStreetMap database and the OpenStreetMap map can get of of sync.
For example: vandalism can be fixed in the database but still need some time for re-rendering to update the map.
3/n

2024-06-17 21:51:54

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Whatever is in the OpenStreetMap database will get rendered into a map you'll see on
https://www.openstreetmap.org
Rendering and re-rendering the whole planet Earth continuously is expensive and takes a while. The result is cached so that whenever you go to that website you see the map immediately.
2/n

2024-06-17 21:49:47

Alright #Mapstodon #OpenStreetMap There's still / again broad scale vandalism going on in our beloved map 😓
So let's clarify a couple of things! 🤓
There are practically zero checks for what goes into the OpenStreetMap database. You can create an account and delete a city. It'll be in the database immediately. The thinking is that the community will spot it and fix it ("self-healing map") and there are tools to check for vandalism in the map.
1/n