I can’t find the community forum thread where I originally learned about it, but here’s a BBC article discussing the downstream fallout for apps that use OSM data.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45354311

Reminds me of this asshole who vandalized openstreetmap a while back to “point out a security flaw”

By changing the names of a bunch of prominent buildings to racist terms

Oh shit potential open source factorio projects at some point in a few years

This is fucking stupid. Like “I don’t wear a seatbelt so I can be thrown out the window to safety” stupid.

10am and later, I think

Same, like no need to get angry on my behalf. I am literally happy with this too

Short answer: yes

Pretty much all of the imagery options available on ID are orthoimagery, since that just means it’s been corrected to remove distortions from camera angle, lens, and topography.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t always make them perfectly accurate. The only good way to check if a particular dataset is accurate is to record GPS along a feature identifiable in the imagery and check out the offset.

Usually the best one to use is a more local survey that covers just the city (usually only done for larger cities). Also ones where the area you’re tracing has a more “overhead” camera angle (hard to trace when the top of tall buildings are very offset from their base).

I think the RapID editor automatically provides a few additional local imagery sets, depending on where you are working.

Great Boonta Vista stinger

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