OpenStreetMap (@openstreetmap@en.osm.town)
Föderation EN Mi 17.04.2024 16:00:19
📬 You've got mail! Germany's national postal service (Deutsche Post/DHL) has switched to OpenStreetMap for their public facing websites, https://deutschepost.de, https://dhl.de. 🎉🥳🎊🎁
Kevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)
Föderation EN Mi 17.04.2024 16:18:29
@openstreetmap propably because #GoogleMaps sucks and is expensive and can't comply with #GDPR & #BDSG as well as being outdated af.
Seriously, this made the rounds when @NDR showcased it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84DFM2RJ5B8
KasTas (@KasTasMykolas@river.group.lt)
Föderation EN Mi 17.04.2024 16:35:30
@kkarhan @openstreetmap @NDR they did something weird with XML in their subtitles :D
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Kuchenmampfer (@kuchenmampfer@chaos.social)
Föderation DE Mi 17.04.2024 17:16:35
@openstreetmap Jetzt müssen sie nur noch den Appzwang an Packstationen einstellen
Tanja 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🦀❄️ :nixos: (@tanja_4639@tech.lgbt)
Föderation EN Mi 17.04.2024 18:05:10
@openstreetmap about damn time 🎉
Always nice to see some more #osm adoption 😸✨
categulario 🐍 🦀 🦎 🇵🇸 (@categulario@mstdn.mx)
Föderation EN Mi 17.04.2024 20:55:42
@jailandrade @openstreetmap genial!
Lindworm (@lindworm@chaos.social)
Föderation EN Do 18.04.2024 21:57:25
@openstreetmap not everywhere though. The app still sends you for navigation to google maps only, even if you don't have it installed. They do not use the phones navigation api at all.
Föderation EN Do 18.04.2024 22:55:29
@openstreetmap you do realize that those guys are our enemy no. 1 in germany?
They have licensing agreements with all german states prohibiting them from providing opendata to OSM
Horst Thieme (@ibigfoot@chaos.social)
Föderation EN Do 18.04.2024 22:58:59
@md @openstreetmap How come?
Föderation EN Do 18.04.2024 23:09:41
@ibigfoot they are licensing an excel sheet with post codes to all 16 states which has a proprietary license.Those post codes get mixed into almost all german geodata datasets rendering them proprietary, too.
I got a 100.000€ lawsuit ongoing with this shit.
@openstreetmap
Mikhail 💛💙 (@freiksenet@toot.cat)
Föderation EN Fr 19.04.2024 08:24:16
@md @openstreetmap how are post codes something managed by private company? What kind of capitalist hellhole Germany became?
cartocalypse (@cartocalypse@norden.social)
Föderation EN Fr 19.04.2024 09:10:31
@md @openstreetmap
I am totally pro your activism but that is a grossly misleading statement.
The states licensed proprietary data from them and mixed it with state data. Licensing 101 says that the result is obviously "tainted" by the proprietary data. And thus it cannot be released as open data as long as DP does not agree.
The states could easily provide the original data without the additional proprietary data as open data.
Yes, it would be nice if DP would opendata the post code areas.
taketwo (@taketwo@social.tchncs.de)
Föderation EN Sa 20.04.2024 07:49:43
@md There is an ongoing legal case that wants to free government geo data.
When the government is forced to give access without fees we might be able to come to a better agreement a out cooperation. Until then we need Ed to keep both separated to avoid tainting.
meduz' (@meduz@m.nintendojo.fr)
Föderation EN Mo 22.04.2024 09:38:27
@md @openstreetmap Is “them” referring to Germany post office or the Germany landers? Who wants to forbid who (and why)?
BjoernAusGE (@bjoern@social.sengotta.net)
Föderation DE Fr 19.04.2024 07:25:16
@openstreetmap now it would be nice if they also contribute to the project, maybe with money they save by not using Google Services.
OS-SCI (@os_sci@mastodon.social)
Föderation EN Sa 20.04.2024 08:00:27
@openstreetmap Really wonderfull news. The only way is foss.
