{"id":8669,"date":"2022-02-28T19:30:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T00:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=8669"},"modified":"2022-02-28T19:30:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T00:30:51","slug":"linked-musings-on-modern-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2022\/02\/28\/linked-musings-on-modern-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Musings on Modern Mapping&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1028,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/tidbits.com\\\/2022\\\/02\\\/21\\\/here-be-digital-dragons-musings-on-modern-mapping&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20241111132638\\\/https:\\\/\\\/tidbits.com\\\/2022\\\/02\\\/21\\\/here-be-digital-dragons-musings-on-modern-mapping\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 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(and <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/25\/musings-on-modern-mapping\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Tsai<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Unfortunately, it\u2019s all too common for mapping services to rely on obsolete or incorrect data. In the On The Go Map map at the top of the article, you\u2019ll see Plantations Rd in the lower-left corner. When I sent a map proposing a running course to my contact at Cornell, she pointed out that that road had been renamed Arboretum Rd. as part of an overall name change from \u201cCornell Plantations\u201d to \u201cCornell Botanic Gardens.\u201d It turns out that On The Go Map uses data from OpenStreetMap, a free and editable map of the world, so I created an account, logged in, and left a note asking for a fix.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I wanted to thank Adam for writing this. I don\u2019t often get to read experiences in map making from amateurs \/ hobbyists very often. Seriously. Working full time at a digital mapping company means I\u2019m always thinking about and engineering solutions to the really tough problems and since I\u2019m not building customer facing products, I lose sight of how someone, a runner, may develop a method to making, annotating, publishing and correcting maps.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via TidBITS (and Michael Tsai) Unfortunately, it\u2019s all too common for mapping services to rely on obsolete or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-03-01T00:31:03Z","apple_news_api_id":"a6295063-fd76-4f27-932e-762958fcae1b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-03-01T00:31:03Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ApilQY_12TyeTLnYpWPyuGw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-2fP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4719,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/06\/25\/tapping-into-passive-goodwill-with-smartphones\/","url_meta":{"origin":8669,"position":0},"title":"Tapping into passive goodwill with Smartphones","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"On FieldGuide, there is an article titled, \u201c4 Ways to Use Your Smartphone for a Good Cause\u201d. 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