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Are there any good google maps alternatives?

Cartes is probably the closest thing that I've found (besides Apple Maps or Bing Maps).

  • You can share links with anyone, and they don't need a particular app to open it.
  • The interface will be familiar to Google maps users.
  • It supports leaving reviews for locations.
  • It will pull up Wikipedia information and photos if any have been uploaded to Wikimedia or Panoramax.
  • It's really good for public transit routing.
  • It's okay for planning driving routes, but for turn by turn directions you'll want to use CoMaps (which Cartes has a link to open up the route there).
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Trial begins for religious sect accused of killing child

The vast majority of Christian religions don't have anything against modern medicine.

The fact that a girl is now dead because of these extremists is heartbreaking.

There's a popular parable/joke that's often told among those who are religious about a devout man in a flood who rejects multiple rescuers while saying, "God will save me." He then eventually drowns and complains to God. God then responds with something like, "What do you mean?! I sent 2 boats and a helicopter!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_drowning_man

For Christianity in general, there's a saying that we should first do everything we can and then leave the rest in God's hands. There's a whole section dedicated to this with the most relevant part:

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? (James 2:14)

Any Christian religion that chooses to ignore modern advances in medicine (be that vaccines, insulin, or whatever) shows that they're ignoring a fairly obvious lesson that the rest of Christianity has already learned.

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Aside from filling out academic surveys online, how can I directly help scientists?

or logging the animals I see in nature or something

iNaturalist is a great way to contribute in this way:
https://www.inaturalist.org/

Just be sure to go into your settings and change the default license to something less restrictive (or whatever you're comfortable with).

It was introduced to me by a zoologist that specializes in Reptiles and I know it's a tool that researchers (or anyone depending on the license of the observation) can use.

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What is the correct cereal/milk ratio?

Just enough so that, by the time I finish the cereal, there's only a little milk left.

Edit: The way I do it is to have a layer of granola on the bottom, then a layer of whatever floaty cereal on top. When I fill it with milk, it's a little bit below the top layer so that it's just a little less than what would make it float. That usually gives me the perfect ratio.

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Towards an open, federated review platform based on OSM

There are some projects working on a review system now. The 3 that I can think of are Cartes.app, Mangrove, and lib.reviews.

The developer of Cartes discusses their review system here, and why they chose to avoid using Mangrove or lib.reviews.

They also answer the question as to why they chose to work on ATproto first instead of starting with ActivityPub.

Map Complete has added Mangrove reviews as a feature in their application.

OsmAnd had a plugin for Openplace reviews, but their service shut down in 2023.

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Degoogle Progress

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I'm assuming this is a list you copied from somewhere else, most of these are not privacy issues.

  1. Is a privacy issue and definitely concerning. It was fixed a little over a month after the issue report:
    https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/13527

There is a more recent issue where DNS is leaking if your Shield settings are set to "Aggressive" for trackers & ads blocking:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/48947

1,2,3,4,6,7,8,10,11 are not privacy related issues.

  1. I don't think you read, or understood the article, because your summary is not what's happening there. In that article a website owner is complaining that Brave is scraping their website and using the content to feed some database for LLM training.

  2. I was confused about because your summary is incorrect (again). Brave does still block fingerprinting, but according to that article they removed the "strict" level blocking because too many sites broke.

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How to move from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap

I've used OsmAnd+, Organic Maps, CoMaps, MapComplete, etc.
My favorite app that I'm looking forward to is CartesApp. Unfortunately it doesn't have an English translation yet. It's only geared towards French users for now.

It has an interface that's very familiar to Google Map users, and clicking on locations brings up the kind of information you're used to when using Google Maps.

https://cartes.app/

https://codeberg.org/cartes/web

Edit: That being said, the web app works fine for me when "installing" with a browser that has a built-in translation service.

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Depends on your interests:

As far as some sort of one-on-one support service, I'm not too sure of online services for that (beyond helping out in specific forums when people ask questions).

You can help out with a variety of different research projects over on the Zooniverse:
https://www.zooniverse.org/

You can help by contributing to the map around your area: https://www.openstreetmap.org/

Help out with research on wildlife in your area:
https://www.inaturalist.org/

Contribute to Wikipedia:
https://www.wikipedia.org/

If you feel passionate about consumer rights, you can contribute to the wiki here:
https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page

If you like to tinker with electronics, check out Fulu Bounties and get paid for helping to get around DRM on refrigerators or on an Xbox. This has the potential to help a lot of end users as well as prevent E-waste. https://bounties.fulu.org/

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Whats a good hobby to get into, as someones whos home alot with a laptop?

Volunteer for things you find interesting or fun.

Check out OpenStreetMap:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
And help map out your area.

You can help out with a variety of different research projects over on the Zooniverse:
https://www.zooniverse.org/

Help out with research on wildlife in your area:
https://www.inaturalist.org/

Contribute to Wikipedia:
https://www.wikipedia.org/

If you feel passionate about consumer rights, you can contribute to the wiki here:
https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page

If you like to tinker with electronics, check out Fulu Bounties and get paid for helping to get around DRM on refrigerators or on an Xbox.
https://bounties.fulu.org/

Then of course there's always volunteering for organizations nearby.

Why? I have reasons for each of these projects but for me it just sparks joy in contributing to projects that will help others.

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How would I map these crossings?

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It's hard to tell without some aerial/satellite imagery of your intersection, but assuming there are islands at each crossing, and assuming that "up" is North in your image:


The crossings at the Northwest and Southeast would be tagged as shown at the top of the page you linked:


While the 4 Northeast and Southwest crossings would be tagged as shown at the bottom of the page you linked: