"Tired of scrolling through endless model rankings without truly SEEING the results, I built https://ImageBattle.ai to visually compare AI-generated images from multiple models. Because seeing is believing."
The aim is globally, we're working on speeding it up and cleaning out trains and water... We'll probably finish the US within a few days and move on to the EU or other places.
Can imagine train traces particularly being tricky. Might have to build a separate routing graph of just train lines and filter out any traces that match that too strongly - though I don't think people mapping train lines in OSM work too hard to get train lines' routeability right...
So far as I was aware, TomTom provides a commercial alternative to OSM data. Them helping OSM in that context takes some rocket calculus / is a valid question.
Their main products are centered on fast GPS tracking solutions, which works really well with maps and mapping out maps, but at the end of the day are "just" coordinates. Selling maps in and of themselves is not their core product.
TomTom has GPS traces, but if those traces lead to OSM crowdsourced corrections without rolling a vehicle then they get better data faster. This may be particularly relevant for highway changes with no associated street addresses.
Monopolies are efficient, that's why they exist and survive. The bad part is that they can capture all the economic profit from an activity. But there doesn't necessarily matter for leisure activities like space travel.
Monopolies are efficient given status quo processes / technologies / business models, but cause development in all those above areas to stagnate. Ergo monopolies create inefficiencies given the march of time. It's bizarre that I have to state such a thing on something like hacker news.
I find it puzzling how random OSM things go to the top of HN on a seemingly monthly basis. I imagine some vast conspiracy network promoting these links and wonder who's in charge and what their motivation is?
Thanks for starting this way back then, the amount of value created directly and indirectly is immeasurable.
That said, I'm very doubtful of the likelihood of me contributing something novel and useful to the GIS world -- I'm keep to learn from and stand on the shoulders of giants that got us here for at least the first bit of my foray into GIS before trying to contribute something fresh, RTFM and all that. To be fair it has taken 15 years to whittle down this particular wheel, starting from scratch feels almost disrespectful -- I'll leave that for younger explorers.
