OpenDroneMap (ODM)
ODM is an open source command line toolkit for processing aerial drone imagery. Typical drones use simple point-and-shoot cameras, so the images from drones, while from a different perspective, are similar to any pictures taken from point-and-shoot cameras, i.e. non-metric imagery. OpenDroneMap turns those simple images into three dimensional geographic data that can be used in combination with other geographic datasets.
https://github.com/OpenDroneMap/ODM/blob/master/README.md
Docs: https://docs.opendronemap.org
Community: http://community.opendronemap.org
WebOpenDroneMap (WebODM)
ODM graphical user interface
https://github.com/OpenDroneMap/WebODM
📡 @NoGoolag
#maps #alternatives #aerial #drone #kite #satellite #earth #gmaps
ODM is an open source command line toolkit for processing aerial drone imagery. Typical drones use simple point-and-shoot cameras, so the images from drones, while from a different perspective, are similar to any pictures taken from point-and-shoot cameras, i.e. non-metric imagery. OpenDroneMap turns those simple images into three dimensional geographic data that can be used in combination with other geographic datasets.
https://github.com/OpenDroneMap/ODM/blob/master/README.md
Docs: https://docs.opendronemap.org
Community: http://community.opendronemap.org
WebOpenDroneMap (WebODM)
ODM graphical user interface
https://github.com/OpenDroneMap/WebODM
📡 @NoGoolag
#maps #alternatives #aerial #drone #kite #satellite #earth #gmaps
GitHub
ODM/README.md at master · OpenDroneMap/ODM
A command line toolkit to generate maps, point clouds, 3D models and DEMs from drone, balloon or kite images. 📷 - OpenDroneMap/ODM
MapKnitter (MapKnitter.org)
is a free and open source tool for combining and positioning images (often from MapMill.org) in geographic space into a composite image map. Known as “orthorectification” or “georectification” to geographers, this step covers the process of figuring out where images can be placed on an existing map, and how they can be combined, or “stitched” together. You are likely to have many images of overlapping or identical areas, which is why MapMill or some type of sorting is used to determine which source images to use from the original set.
MapKnitter can make maps from any image source, but it particularly lends itself to making maps with balloons and kites. The manual process of making maps with MapKnitter differs greatly from automated aerial imaging systems. In those systems the imaging is of a higher precision and processed with spatial and telemetry data collected along with the imagery, typically at higher altitudes and with consistent image overlap in the flight path sequence.
With MapKnitter the cartographer dynamically places each image and selects which images to include in the mosaic. Although the approaches are similar in that they use some type of additional information (usually pre-existing imagery of a lower resolution) as a reference, and that they are bound to specific cartographic elements such as map scale and map projection.
https://mapknitter.org
Docs: https://publiclab.org/wiki/mapknitter
📡 @NoGoolag
#maps #alternatives #aerial #drone #kite #satellite #earth #gmaps
is a free and open source tool for combining and positioning images (often from MapMill.org) in geographic space into a composite image map. Known as “orthorectification” or “georectification” to geographers, this step covers the process of figuring out where images can be placed on an existing map, and how they can be combined, or “stitched” together. You are likely to have many images of overlapping or identical areas, which is why MapMill or some type of sorting is used to determine which source images to use from the original set.
MapKnitter can make maps from any image source, but it particularly lends itself to making maps with balloons and kites. The manual process of making maps with MapKnitter differs greatly from automated aerial imaging systems. In those systems the imaging is of a higher precision and processed with spatial and telemetry data collected along with the imagery, typically at higher altitudes and with consistent image overlap in the flight path sequence.
With MapKnitter the cartographer dynamically places each image and selects which images to include in the mosaic. Although the approaches are similar in that they use some type of additional information (usually pre-existing imagery of a lower resolution) as a reference, and that they are bound to specific cartographic elements such as map scale and map projection.
https://mapknitter.org
Docs: https://publiclab.org/wiki/mapknitter
📡 @NoGoolag
#maps #alternatives #aerial #drone #kite #satellite #earth #gmaps
mapknitter.org
Make maps from aerial photos with Public Lab's free and open source web toolkit
Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking
Video: Invidio.us/watch?v=rZpc2_xnSfc
via www.washingtonpost.com
#gmaps #Google #border #maps #why
Video: Invidio.us/watch?v=rZpc2_xnSfc
via www.washingtonpost.com
#gmaps #Google #border #maps #why
Telegraph
Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who’s looking
Google’s corporate mission is “to organize the world’s information,” but it also bends it to its will. From Argentina to the United Kingdom to Iran, the world’s borders look different depending on where you’re viewing them from. That’s because Google — and…
Mapillary, the crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, has been acquired by Facebook
Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world via a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, has been acquired by Facebook, according to the company’s blog. Terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed.
The Mapillary team and project will become part of Facebook’s broader open mapping efforts. Mapillary also says its “commitment to OpenStreetMap stays.” Writes Mapillary co-founder and CEO Jan Erik:
From day one of Mapillary, we have been committed to building a global street-level imagery platform that allows everyone to get the imagery and data they need to make better maps. With tens of thousands of contributors to our platform and with maps being improved with Mapillary data every single day, we’re now taking the next big step on that journey.
As Erik notes, Facebook is known to be “building tools and technology to improve maps through a combination of machine learning, satellite imagery and partnerships with mapping communities.” Mapping has immediate use-cases for the social networking behemoth, such as Facebook Marketplaces and its local business offerings, while another application is augmented reality.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/18/mapillary-facebook/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-deals-mapillary/facebook-acquires-crowdsourced-mapping-company-mapillary-idUSKBN23P3N6
https://blog.mapillary.com/news/2020/06/18/Mapillary-joins-Facebook.html
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jesolem/diary/393358
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/juminet/diary/393393
#mapillary #fb #Facebook #maps #osm
Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world via a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, has been acquired by Facebook, according to the company’s blog. Terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed.
The Mapillary team and project will become part of Facebook’s broader open mapping efforts. Mapillary also says its “commitment to OpenStreetMap stays.” Writes Mapillary co-founder and CEO Jan Erik:
From day one of Mapillary, we have been committed to building a global street-level imagery platform that allows everyone to get the imagery and data they need to make better maps. With tens of thousands of contributors to our platform and with maps being improved with Mapillary data every single day, we’re now taking the next big step on that journey.
As Erik notes, Facebook is known to be “building tools and technology to improve maps through a combination of machine learning, satellite imagery and partnerships with mapping communities.” Mapping has immediate use-cases for the social networking behemoth, such as Facebook Marketplaces and its local business offerings, while another application is augmented reality.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/18/mapillary-facebook/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-deals-mapillary/facebook-acquires-crowdsourced-mapping-company-mapillary-idUSKBN23P3N6
https://blog.mapillary.com/news/2020/06/18/Mapillary-joins-Facebook.html
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jesolem/diary/393358
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/juminet/diary/393393
#mapillary #fb #Facebook #maps #osm
TechCrunch
Mapillary, the crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, has been acquired by Facebook | TechCrunch
Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world via a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, has been
#maps
Navigation apps
OsmAnd+ - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus/
Maps.me - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.maps/
Public transport apps
Transportr - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.grobox.liberario/
Offi - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.schildbach.oeffi/
Navigation apps
OsmAnd+ - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus/
Maps.me - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.maps/
Public transport apps
Transportr - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.grobox.liberario/
Offi - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.schildbach.oeffi/
You can now follow people [Yikes!] on Google Maps, the company's newest social network
Google Maps is pretty much the go-to app for navigation these days, but it packs a lot of additional features as well, like offering business info and personalized recommendations. Google experimented with allowing users to follow select Local Guides last year, and now the company is expanding the program to include all users — that's right, Google Maps is now a social network.
Rolling out globally today, users on Google Maps who have shared photos, reviews, or lists publicly will be followable. The updated profiles look a lot like a Twitter or Facebook page, with a follow button and the number of followers the account has. Once you follow a user, you'll receive their posts, recommendations, and other wisdom in the Updates tab of the Maps app.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/07/30/you-can-now-follow-people-on-google-maps-the-companys-newest-social-network/
#google #maps #privacy
Google Maps is pretty much the go-to app for navigation these days, but it packs a lot of additional features as well, like offering business info and personalized recommendations. Google experimented with allowing users to follow select Local Guides last year, and now the company is expanding the program to include all users — that's right, Google Maps is now a social network.
Rolling out globally today, users on Google Maps who have shared photos, reviews, or lists publicly will be followable. The updated profiles look a lot like a Twitter or Facebook page, with a follow button and the number of followers the account has. Once you follow a user, you'll receive their posts, recommendations, and other wisdom in the Updates tab of the Maps app.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/07/30/you-can-now-follow-people-on-google-maps-the-companys-newest-social-network/
#google #maps #privacy
Android Police
You can now follow people on Google Maps, the company's newest social network
Messaging ✔️ Photos ✔️ Followers ✔️
How Google Maps uses DeepMind’s AI tools to predict your arrival time
A lot of data and a lot of neural networks
Google Maps is one of the company’s most widely-used products, and its ability to predict upcoming traffic jams makes it indispensable for many drivers. Each day, says Google, more than 1 billion kilometers of road are driven with the app’s help. But, as the search giant explains in a blog post today, its features have got more accurate thanks to machine learning tools from DeepMind, the London-based AI lab owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/3/21419632/how-google-maps-predicts-traffic-eta-ai-machine-learning-deepmind
#Google #Maps #DeepMind #AI
A lot of data and a lot of neural networks
Google Maps is one of the company’s most widely-used products, and its ability to predict upcoming traffic jams makes it indispensable for many drivers. Each day, says Google, more than 1 billion kilometers of road are driven with the app’s help. But, as the search giant explains in a blog post today, its features have got more accurate thanks to machine learning tools from DeepMind, the London-based AI lab owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/3/21419632/how-google-maps-predicts-traffic-eta-ai-machine-learning-deepmind
#Google #Maps #DeepMind #AI
Plan Your Route Privately: DuckDuckGo Now Has Driving and Walking Directions
https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-search-map-directions
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24745511
#ddg #duckduckgo #maps #alternatives
https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-search-map-directions
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24745511
#ddg #duckduckgo #maps #alternatives
Spread Privacy
Plan Your Route Privately: DuckDuckGo Now Has Driving & Walking Directions
We're excited to announce a big step forward with the introduction of route-planning directions on DuckDuckGo Search – private, as always.
Openstreetmap is having a moment – the billion dollar dataset next door
https://joemorrison.medium.com/openstreetmap-is-having-a-moment-dcc7eef1bb01
Comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25137235
#osm #openstreetmaps #maps
https://joemorrison.medium.com/openstreetmap-is-having-a-moment-dcc7eef1bb01
Comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25137235
#osm #openstreetmaps #maps
Medium
OpenStreetMap is Having a Moment
The Billion Dollar Dataset Next Door
Six Reasons Why Google Maps Is the Creepiest App On Your Phone
Google knows where you are, and so do advertisers.
Google Maps knows everything. Not just about every street, and every cafe, bar and shop on that street, but the people who go to them. With 1 billion monthly active users, the app is embedded in people’s lives – directing them on their commute, to their friends’ and families’ homes, to doctor’s appointments and on their travels abroad.
The fact that Google Maps has the power to follow your every step doesn't automatically mean it’s misusing that power. But they could, which is an issue in and of itself, especially since Google’s headquarters are in the US, where privacy legislation is looser than in Europe and intelligence agencies have a history of surveilling private citizens (I see you, NSA).
Yes, Google Maps is incredibly useful. But here are just a few reasons to double check your privacy settings and ask yourself how much personal data you’re willing to sacrifice in the name of convenience.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3an84b/six-reasons-why-google-maps-is-the-creepiest-app-on-your-phone
#google #maps #privacy
Google knows where you are, and so do advertisers.
Google Maps knows everything. Not just about every street, and every cafe, bar and shop on that street, but the people who go to them. With 1 billion monthly active users, the app is embedded in people’s lives – directing them on their commute, to their friends’ and families’ homes, to doctor’s appointments and on their travels abroad.
The fact that Google Maps has the power to follow your every step doesn't automatically mean it’s misusing that power. But they could, which is an issue in and of itself, especially since Google’s headquarters are in the US, where privacy legislation is looser than in Europe and intelligence agencies have a history of surveilling private citizens (I see you, NSA).
Yes, Google Maps is incredibly useful. But here are just a few reasons to double check your privacy settings and ask yourself how much personal data you’re willing to sacrifice in the name of convenience.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3an84b/six-reasons-why-google-maps-is-the-creepiest-app-on-your-phone
#google #maps #privacy
Vice
Does Google Maps Have Privacy Issues?
Google knows where you are, and so do advertisers.
Forwarded from GJ `°÷°` 🇵🇸🕊 (t ``~__/>_GJ06)
Organic Maps - New promising alternative to Google Maps is now in beta for Android and iOS : privacytoolsIO – https://teddit.net/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/nxfxx1/organic_maps_new_promising_alternative_to_google/
Organic Maps (Offline maps with turn-by-turn navigation) - https://f-droid.org/packages/app.organicmaps
Organic Maps | Fast detailed offline maps for travelers, tourists, hikers and cyclists – https://organicmaps.app/
#OpenstreetMap #Maps
#travel #navigation
#FuckGoogleMaps
Organic Maps (Offline maps with turn-by-turn navigation) - https://f-droid.org/packages/app.organicmaps
Organic Maps | Fast detailed offline maps for travelers, tourists, hikers and cyclists – https://organicmaps.app/
#OpenstreetMap #Maps
#travel #navigation
#FuckGoogleMaps
Google #Maps has an open source rival powered by #Meta and #Microsoft . This is what their first map with unpublished data looks like
Late last year we saw Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft and TomTom create the Overture Maps Foundation (OMF), which has managed to capture 59 million "points of interest" such as restaurants, landmarks, streets and regional boundaries. Now their data is being made public to enable companies to create their own maps, without having to rely on Google or Apple.
https://overturemaps.org/overture-maps-foundation-releases-first-world-wide-open-map-dataset/
Late last year we saw Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft and TomTom create the Overture Maps Foundation (OMF), which has managed to capture 59 million "points of interest" such as restaurants, landmarks, streets and regional boundaries. Now their data is being made public to enable companies to create their own maps, without having to rely on Google or Apple.
https://overturemaps.org/overture-maps-foundation-releases-first-world-wide-open-map-dataset/
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Mapping Hebron's Apartheid –
#Apartheid #Palestine #Mapping #maps
The primary intention of the project is to give users an objective tool with which to form their own opinions about the situation. The interactive map, using easy-to-understand graphics, creates a simple tool that sheds light on this very complex social and political reality. In highlighting the facts, the project aims to bring international attention to the apartheid policies occurring specifically in Hebron while still reflecting the reality facing The West Bank as a whole.
The interactive map, using easy-to-understand graphics, creates a simple tool that sheds light on this very complex social and political reality. In highlighting the facts, the project aims to bring international attention to the apartheid policies occurring specifically in Hebron while still reflecting the reality facing The West Bank as a whole.#Apartheid #Palestine #Mapping #maps
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#TBOT: Take Back Our Tech
⚡️Open Source Maps: Clip #1 How Maps Were Used in Ancient History @takebackourtech Ever wonder what the origin of prehistoric maps were in the ancient world? Long before OsmAnd and Google Maps, our ancestors used to chisel out detailed maps in mammoth tusks…
For a collection of ancient maps search or click on the hashtags #map or #maps in @ballmemes
Maps not following the globe model were made illegal in the 1700s, this alone should make you question why
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-NAO-01776/5
Pages 3 and 4
they made it illegal for people to come up with a way to derive another coordinate system. All future maps/nav will be done using their lat/long system
https://publish.obsidian.md/shanesql/The+Longitude+Act+and+the+Board+of+Longitude
you can read more about it here
And here you have some books to learn to navigate by the stars
https://t.me/BallMemes/17644
Some videos about the origin of measurements:
https://t.me/BallMemes/17004
Maps not following the globe model were made illegal in the 1700s, this alone should make you question why
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-NAO-01776/5
Pages 3 and 4
they made it illegal for people to come up with a way to derive another coordinate system. All future maps/nav will be done using their lat/long system
https://publish.obsidian.md/shanesql/The+Longitude+Act+and+the+Board+of+Longitude
you can read more about it here
And here you have some books to learn to navigate by the stars
https://t.me/BallMemes/17644
Some videos about the origin of measurements:
https://t.me/BallMemes/17004
Cambridge Digital Library
National Maritime Museum Print Works : The nautical almanac and astronomical ephemeris, for the year 1776.
Forwarded from Libreware
The open-source mobile app Organic Maps is used by millions of people on both the Android and iOS platforms. In addition to featuring offline maps (generated from OpenStreetMap cartography) and turn-by-turn navigation, it also promises its users greater privacy than proprietary options. However, controversial decisions taken by the project's leaders, feelings of disenfranchisement among contributors, and even accusations of embezzlement have precipitated a divide in the community, leading to a new fork called CoMaps.
Hike, Bike, Drive Offline Navigate with Privacy | CoMaps
https://www.comaps.app/
#Navigation #Maps
Hike, Bike, Drive Offline Navigate with Privacy | CoMaps
https://www.comaps.app/
#Navigation #Maps