Open Street map 5

So, further to my previous post, I have now made further edits to the map. STEAM Café and Music shop next door are now added, I am trying to change Peacocks, which is listed as a vacant building to the map. I need to add it as a clothes shop or shop, but can't find in the list, so have asked on Matrix for help.

I have also suggested on the UK community forum that we can perhaps use the Tinkerers meetings to meet up with other OSM hackers. It just needs something to start this off, then a group can be formed, and a more formal schedule can be agreed upon.

There are now some OSM flyers in the STEAM Café,
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If you are a local business, then it is in your interest to be on the map accurately, as the OSM data can be used as part of Apps that point to local information, keeping the map updated is really vital.

Links

• Open Street Map
  • Open Street Map App
• Street Complete
  • Street Complete App (Android)
• JOSM Software for map editing
• Open Street Map UK Community
• OSM Profile
• Matrix Room
• Mastodon

Tags

#Community,#Open,#StreetMap,#Cartograpy,#CrowdScource, #OpenStreetMap

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Open Street map 4

So, further to my previous post, A little disappointed, but not surprised in the lack of interest in people wanting to help with this.

Suffice to say, I have made my first edit, which is to add the Steam café & Discovery Centre to the Map.

I have also found a nice guide on how to edit.

I will endeavour to add more. Furthermore, I also added the music shop next door as this is no longer Lucky Dip, as it has changed hands, but no new shop name has been added to the front of the shop. This is fine, OSM is about local knowledge.

I have also received some post card size flyers from OSM, so will leave some in the STEAM café, and elsewhere too.

You should be able to tag me on OSM/Forum and Matrix with @zleap

Links

• Open Street Map
• Street Complete
  • Street Complete App (Android)
  • JOSM Software for map editing
  • Open Street Map UK Community
• OSM Profile
• Matrix Room
• Mastodon

Tags

#Community,#Open,#StreetMap,#Cartograpy,#CrowdScource, #OpenStreetMap

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Open Street map 3

So, further to my previous post, I have reached out to community builders and have received a positive first response.

I have also posted a message to the UK OSM forum, so hopefully within Torbay, between various groups add lots of information to the map.

You should be able to tag me on OSM/Forum and Matrix with @zleap

Links

• Open Street Map
• Street Complete
  • Street Complete App (Android)
  • JOSM Software for map editing
  • Open Street Map UK Community
• OSM Profile
• Matrix Room
• Mastodon

Tags

#Community,#Open,#StreetMap,#Cartograpy,#CrowdScource, #OpenStreetMap

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Open Street map 2

So further to my previous post, I am starting to work on adding items to the Map, mostly in St Mary Church and Paignton Town Centre.

If you log in, you can see what I have done and how others have helped with this too.

View Larger Map

I will try and reach out to Torbay Community Builders to see if anyone else can help or recruit volunteers to help with the project, as local knowledge is really essential for accuracy on where places are etc.

Links

• Open Street Map
• Street Complete
  • Street Complete App (Android)
  • JOSM Software for map editing
  • Open Street Map UK Community
• OSM Profile
• Matrix Room
• Mastodon

Tags

#Community,#Open,#StreetMap,#Cartograpy,#CrowdScource, #OpenStreetMap

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Open Street Map

Online collaborative project creating a world geographic database

• Open Street Map

Links

• Matrix Room
• Mastodon

Help with project

There are lots of ways to help with this project. Local knowledge is key to accuracy, if you sign up, find your local area you can add notes to the map or resolve others. I have been doing this for the Torbay Area.

Note: There will be a post on how to use Matrix tomorrow

Tags

#Community,#Open,#StreetMap,#Cartograpy,#CrowdScource, #OpenStreetMap

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RISC-V 2024 Update: RISE, AI Accelerators & More

Update from Explaining computers on RISC-V CPU architecture

• https://liliputing.com/sipeed-lichee-pi-4a-is-a-modular-risc-v-mini-pc-with-up-to-16gb-ram/

Tags

#CPU,#RISCV,#Open,#Architecture

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Mobile Devices

Mobile Devices

I decided to write this article after reading the Free Software Journey article. This is part of the wider FSF Freedom Ladder

This article cites several projects that address Mobile phone freedom. There are different hardware options here, from dedicated phones running a FreeOS or ways to flash / install an existing phone with a new freedom respecting OS (sorry if the terminology is wrong here).

Android Based

• Replicant
• Lineage OS
• graphene OS
• Havoc OS

Other

• Pure OS
• Mobian – Debian Derived
• Ubuntu Touch
• Postmarket OS
• Sailfish OS

As you can see from the above list there are quite a few options, some are forks of Android, so I assume that Free Software repositories such as F-droid works and can provide a good range of Apps for users. See below as I am trying to find out about this.

However my area of concern is things like the Mastodon Apps It seems the only Freedom respecting app for Mastodon is Tooter, which is available for another OS called SailfishOS, so yet another option, so we have a really good, powerful social media replacement, but it seems rather limited connectivity from mobile devices, (unless you are running IOS or Android).

I don't feel this is very helpful. Sailfish, to its credit does have what looks like a very good section on development. I feel that for these alternatives to really take off, the apps need to be there, and not just in the hands of developers, but end users such as myself. I am not interested in using mainstream social media.

Also we need to make it clear if an app works on other systems that are derived from Android for example. (see below)

So we need several things

1. More developers for the actual operating systems
   • Help for people wanting to start with development
2. More development for the hardware
   • Again help for those who want to get involved
3. Testers, and help for testers
4. End users to actually use the system
   • Provide a very easy way for non technical people to report problems
   • Community need to LISTEN to concerns, reports and take action
5. Ensure ALL these apps are available on ALL the different mobile OSs or as many as possible.
   • This will need developers, testers and users being able to come together.

Links

• Paignton Library STEM Group

Free Software and Hardware

• Open Source Hardware Association
• Free software foundation
  • GNU
• Free Software Foundation of India
• Free Software Foundation of Latin America
• Free Software Foundation Europe
• Free Computing Movement
• F-droid

Working on some ideas

I have created a thread here on Fediverse Town to try and ask for some information on which apps work on which mobile operating systems, so Android and importantly Android derived Operating systems.

I have also split the OS list up, so that the OS's derived from Android are clearly identified.

I am not making the assumption they just work or that they are in F-droid.

Updates

31-1-2022 – https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-clients

TAGS

#Hardware,#Phones,#Free,#Open,#Privacy,#Mobile,#mobile

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