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  • i’m no expert — consensus sounds like putting disused only on the main tag, and when i’ve encountered this, i haven’t marked anything disused at all. i’ve only looked at the stop/platform to make sure they weren’t in any relation (transit line relations may include the passing way but shouldn’t include the disused stop/platform). and i make sure route_ref isn’t set on the stop/platform. were the stop to be used again, i figure it would have the same ref/stop id and operator, so i don’t remove them. listening for better ideas though




  • OSM has a lot more data inside than the website shows - in dense shopping areas you can’t zoom in far enough to see all the POIs, much less business names.

    I’ve read before that using cached previews was done to stay accessible to less-powerful mobile devices, which would have smaller CPUs that would be taxed by rendering the native vector data. I view it as a branding disadvantage that OSM appears, from desktops, to have less info than alternatives. But that’s a battle that’s been had many times before, one might as well argue over paper vs plastic.




  • Prerequisites

    • Internet-facing web server with reverse proxy and domain name (preferably SSL of course)
    • Server behind the reverse proxy with Rust environment

    Installation

    • Don’t bother downloading the source code to your server; installing it that way gives you a big debug executable
    • Instead just cargo install mollysocket
    • Move the mollysocket executable if desired
    • Run mollysocket once so that it will emit the default config

    Configuration

    • Fish the config file out of .config/mollysocket/default-config.toml and copy it somewhere.

    config.toml

    • In the new file, replace the allowed_endpoints line with allowed_endpoints = ['*']. The default 0.0.0.0 config appears to be a bug; this setting controls access to endpoints within the app, not IPs from outside. Leaving the original value causes mollysocket to reject everything.
    • Put a proper path in the db = './mollysocket.db' line rather than just having it land wherever you’re sitting.
    • Delete the mollysocket.db that was created on first run (even if it’s already where you’re intending to put it). This is just to make sure the web server creates it and has the correct permissions.

    Run script

    • The environment variable ROCKET_PORT must be set or the server will sit and do nothing. It’s best to create all of the environment variables mentioned in the README, whether that is in a user profile script or in a shell script that wraps startup. You can change any of these values, but they must exist.
    • export ROCKET_PORT=8020
      export RUST_LOG=info
      export MOLLY_CONF=/path/to/your/config.toml
      

    Proxy server

    • You’ll need to proxy everything from / to your mollysocket server and ROCKET_PORT.
    • Exclude anything that you may need served from your web server, such as .well-known.

    Things to know







  • part of humans learning to drive safely is knowing that flouting traffic laws increases your chance of being stopped, fined, or if you’re not the right demographic, worse things. we calibrate our behavior to maximize speed and minimize cops, and to avoid being at-fault in an accident, which is a major hit to insurance rates.

    autonomous vehicles can’t be cited for moving violations. they’re learning to maximize speed without the governor of traffic laws. in the absence of speed and citation data, it’s hard to measure how safe they are. there is no systemic incentive for them to care about safety, except for bad press.












  • Our map data is often downloaded and used offline on various devices for several weeks or months. For offline data to be useful, it should at least be expected to remain unchanged in the next few weeks when you map it.

    yes, by this blurb, concession for offline users does supersede safety.

    i’m an editor active enough to have been granted foundation membership but hadn’t known this rule; it indicates a view of osm as analogous to a paper map rather than for real-time navigation. if a change of less than weeks’ length is discouraged, i can’t in good conscience steer my friends away from google maps, as navigation is not a primary use case.