Ilya Zverev

I love OpenStreetMap and crafting virtual things. he/him.

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npub1tkar8mcgerjtcrt9m6z6vrzqcq69ay6cgk5cv9eq3aqzesxr895s0zhf9w

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zverik@en-osm-town.mostr.pub

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relay.primal.net

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2025-05-06 19:47:33

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@nprofile…hd3q Oh, nice! Seems like a logical step — but alas it doesn't compile to run in browser, unlike Pico8, which limits the audience a bit.

2025-05-06 16:45:02

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@nprofile…hd3q Wow this looks incredible, magical even! Hard to believe that's still Pico8 :)

2025-05-06 16:45:02

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@nprofile…hd3q Wow this looks incredible, magical even! Hard to believe that's still Pico8 :)

2025-02-21 13:01:03

"We as an open source community have to re-do everything by ourselves. Everything — social networks, messengers, office software, 15-minute scripts, beacons... How did it come to this?"
My FOSDEM talk about 15-minute cities and my Python script to prepare not-so-pretty but actionable maps for those is on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5fcwhULpg8
(It's 5 minutes of tech talk and 13 minutes of urban theory and my experiences.)

2025-02-17 20:13:49

JOSM needs a new leadership.
It's currently running on closed infrastructure and subject to whims of a single person. Multiple discussions for moving it somewhere public were shut down by the maintainer. This AI thing just highlights how bad it is.

2025-02-13 11:55:29

Yes, it is that good.
https://catvalente.substack.com/p/move-fast-and-break-people-part-1
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/113/996/431/108/629/435/original/27e7edc9763661b8.jpg

2025-02-11 10:50:09

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@nprofile…nvne I wonder if we can make the entire OSM ecosystem move to an OSMF-hosted @nprofile…qe73 instance. Like we had with SVN back in the days.
@nprofile…z29q

2025-02-08 07:42:21

One of @nprofile…zcw8 grant proposals dealt with excessive tile loading from OSM servers. Just checked in 3.40 — and OSM maps look better and load faster indeed.
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-psc/2024-November/010348.html

2025-02-07 09:25:55

Couple years ago I got sad every time I saw a good person I know fall for crypto and NFT. Now I get sad seeing good developers falling for AI.
I understand it is hard to resist huge corporations shoving it in your face, but we have more brains and love for people than corporations, we can know better.
(this is about #JOSM, yes.)

2025-01-15 08:34:14

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@nprofile…5sr3 Absolutely devastating for all his fans, including myself. And his yesterday response only makes it worse :(
https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2025/01/breaking-silence.html

2025-01-13 19:32:55

To add context to Meta blocking Pixelfed mentions, I should remind everyone that Youtube silently hides comments containing "OpenStreetMap". I think @nprofile…ewxt found that out a few years ago.
https://en.osm.town/@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online/113819524597166451
https://x.com/harry_wood/status/1451201614170116102

2025-01-11 09:12:28

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@nprofile…5sr3 @nprofile…7t6w I guess it is possible: just set up a hook or a cron job, and fetch comments on rebuild.

2025-01-08 11:43:38

I have updated editor stats for @nprofile…y5ug :
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editor_usage_stats#Tables_and_figures
What we see is basically a continuation of the trend: all desktop wanes, mobile rises. By number of users, iD has been stagnating for 8 years, JOSM is on the 2010 low, Rapid lol.
StreetComplete, OsmAnd, Vespucci stagnate; Organic, Every Door, Go Map gain new users. No suprises there.
By number of edits, virtually no changes, except doubling for Vespucci: 5 → 9.8 mln. Idk what happened.

2025-01-08 10:45:04

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@nprofile…5sr3 Also just 3 for me — MGS instead of CS — but I can see why they chose those games. They should have added, "that's relevant to modern gamers". I doubt anybody buys that Myst remaster available everywhere.

2025-01-07 19:45:41

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@nprofile…5sr3 How was it even allowed

2024-12-29 14:00:27

All donations from Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and Amazon to @nprofile…y5ug should be compared to their $3 mln annual Overture Maps membership fees.
(and also to non-profit donations lol, how crazy is that a German fund donated more than a trans-national corporation)

2024-12-06 13:06:59

I heard, #Lenovo are great, so this summer I got their new laptop, a mouse, and a dock.
Laptop (AMD) — does not have deep sleep, drains the battery in stand-by in 4 hours, same as when not sleeping.
Mouse (Yoga Pro) — side buttons broke in 2 months. The seller repaired them, but two month after, broke again.
Dock — HDMI does not work. Granted, it's a refurbished Gen 2 dock, but still.
My faith in Lenovo is at the sea level now.

2024-11-20 15:53:43

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@nprofile…5sr3 @nprofile…m0th @nprofile…mhl7 yay, a bit more, and we'll come to agree that the item on the roadmap to better POI in OSM (as I presented in Antwerp in 2023) makes sense!

2024-11-17 20:32:48

Spent today on my first ever @nprofile…66md visualization: the second half of my 15-minute city project. I could not find any toolchain for preparing such maps, only a couple ready-made websites with obsolete data and zero configuration.
Now you can build your own static map page with a set of open source tools (osmium, python, shapely, qgis, graphhopper, maplibre, turfjs etc). See the instructions in the repo:
https://github.com/Zverik/15minute/
I guess this will be the topic for my @nprofile…wcyk talk!
#gischat
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/113/500/165/722/056/495/original/419c2b14bc7a4a6c.png

2024-11-15 07:53:24

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@nprofile…tyen Exactly! I've worked in startups with millions of users, and thousands feel more real — maybe because we as authors connect with them more directly, without layers of marketing and shifted values of needing payment instead of eyes.

2024-10-28 07:40:33

LLMs are what w3w were for GIS enthusiasts. Now everyone gets to experience our frustration with a harmful technology endorsed by governments.
https://w3w.me.ss/
#gischat

2024-09-05 20:53:27

Found out recently that Mapillary broke the navigation in their web explorer. Couple years ago it showed a trace as a series of points: you click on one and see the photo.
Now it displays a line. You cannot click anywhere on the line, but have to trace your mouse cursor along it, searching for a photo. And only then you can click and see it.
I think they don't use Mapillary anymore at Meta, that's why all its parts are getting worse with time.
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/113/086/917/603/348/342/original/a5f129c2d4115515.png

2024-08-24 07:56:39

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@npub1zp3…9n8x I've been arguing it's the same for maps! Leaflet / MapLibre defaults don't fit any use case actually.

2024-08-07 13:20:07

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@npub1jmp…4hcl I'm running five days a week!

2024-06-23 16:13:30

Phew. It is done. Level0 is now HTTPS-enabled with OAuth2 support, working on a new fast server. All thanks to @npub1927…8a3c support that made me speed up my php coding and ansible scripting.
Enjoy! https://level0.osmz.ru/
(My others services are migrating too, e.g. the imagery offset database.)

2024-06-17 14:16:29

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@npub1zp3…9n8x I'd say you remember more joy from your childhood. Watching my children, I think I have the same amount, even being tired and burnt out. You just have more sources of joy.

2024-04-03 05:57:30

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@npub1xhz…kaka Gah! Thank you, fixed the mention :) Also thanks for your work, I hear about you in the infrastructure context now and then, albeit not enough imo!

2024-03-16 18:24:06

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@npub1zp3…9n8x Imagine watching it in IMAX like I did!

2023-12-31 11:09:26

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@npub13kp…68ay Generally speaking, another public transport app, for the entire world this time :) But of course it all starts with the data.

2023-12-30 19:53:00

Feels so weird having over 60KB of code, refactored over and over, but nothing to boast about for at least a couple weeks still. I'm used to making smaller projects with faster gains.
But now I know why nobody implemented this "quick and simple idea".

2023-10-23 17:42:51

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@npub1zp3…9n8x @npub1jmp…4hcl hahaha

2023-10-19 12:01:18

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@npub16l6…4zxy pretty sure you'll overtake maps.me next year!

2023-10-03 14:27:05

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@npub13kp…68ay I read this in reverse, so I immediately started accounting for all queens in my mind: dutch, belgian, former british...

2023-08-21 14:46:40

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@npub1v03…nsl0 reminds me of https://old.reddit.com/r/Maps/comments/14w16sy/this_globe_i_found_in_tkmaxx/ and https://old.reddit.com/r/Maps/comments/14wqimb/more_pictures_of_the_tkmaxx_globe/
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/110/928/143/722/050/202/original/7aa8e11392a8b297.webp