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The Swiss OpenStreetMap Association. Swiss Local Chapter of the OpenStreetMap Foundation OpenStreetMap is the free editable map of the world made by people like you! Visit the Swiss sites https://sosm.ch and https://osm.ch https://en.osm.town/@SwissOSM

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Simon@simon.poole.ch · 6mo ago

#OpenStreetMap diary post 101 www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPo...

Persisting your ids …

This is not about the Linux Foundations Overture Maps attempt to hoodwink the Open Geospatial Consortium into standardising Overtures GERS (Global Entity Reference System) . There is so little technical content available in that proposal that it is difficult to write even a short paragraph about it. But it is motivated by Overtures attempt to engage in the great American tradition of selling snake oil by suggesting that GERS solves real problems . None of the following is new, and all this...

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Simon@simon.poole.ch · 6mo ago

My comment on the OGC GERS standards proposal github.com/opengeospati... There is a lot that could be said from a technical pov and Paul Norman has touched on some of them. But the OMF is simply not an acceptable body for anything and that is where this discussion should stop. #OpenStreetMap

OGC Seeks Public Comment on Justification for the Global Entity Reference System (GERS) Framework as an OGC Community Standard · Issue #3 · opengeospatial/requests

details coming soon

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SOSM@sosm.ch · 9mo ago

Der Fondue-Stammtisch in Zürich findet am Freitag 12. Dez. in einer Woche statt. Bitte meldet euch im Poll [1] bis nächsten Freitag an, wenn ihr kommen könnt. Für genug Fondue sollte gesorgt sein aber es vereinfacht die Planung wenn wir vorher schon wissen mit wie vielen Personen zu rechnen ist. ...

Simon@simon.poole.ch · 10mo ago

Very minor mystery: Does anybody know what happened with the UUCP maps for Switzerland in 1989/1990? That is likely u.che.0 and u.che.1. Up to 1989 Dietrich Wiegandt (who ran cernvax at CERN) posted them to comp.mail.maps, and from 1991 on I posted them from chsun (the CHUUG/EUnet Switzerland). ..

Vespucci@vespucci.io · last yr.

At the end of this month Microsoft will be ending its Bing map services community.openstreetmap.org/t/discontinu... This has been a key bit of infrastructure #OpenStreetMap has relied on for nearly the last 15 years and was a significant boost to contributions back then. ...

Discontinued Services Bing Maps Rest Services

I recently came across the NEWS of the discontinuation of the Bing Maps Rest Services which includes BING MAPS IMAGERY API. On the OSM side, is there any news about what will happen with Bing Aerial ...

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Simon@simon.poole.ch · last yr.

Jetzt hat's plötzlich "klick" gemacht. Nach positivem Erstkontakt mit dem Bundesamt für Energie vor 2 Jahren werden wir sehr hartnäckig ge-ghostet. ...