Having Google followed an OGC standard is an incredible good step forward for the google maps ecosystem. This can really speed up developments on the clients side. It was not that useful to have the best client if there was always a place where the data looked better. Kudos to google.
And if you are interested on encoding Geospatial Data there is a format called Geoparquet that is on the way of standarization: https://geoparquet.org/ Essentially adding metadata on the extensible schema metadata streucture that parquet supports. Think of WKB in a column. With more exciting stuff coming that way.
Main issue with geoparquet at the moment is theres no spatial indexing. When that comes it becomes a lot more viable to replace both other GIS file types like geopackage and also for some cases even database storage like postgis.
Very much looking forward to it though, hoping it covers pointcloud and TIN data well eventually also
Hey Vlad, just came to say hi and wish you the best. You are one of the best engineers I have ever met, and one of the nicest persons too. It is really sad to see you and your entire country going through this. Will keep following your advice on how to support Ukraine and if there is any mapping support or anything else, well, you know where we are. We are following you closely. Big hug.
Holy crud: "Android Devices. Within [] after the Maps APIs Addendum Effective Date, Customer will make commercially reasonable efforts to standardize on Android-based devices for at least [] of new, Customer-purchased devices issued by Customer to Uber Drivers. Customer may select the specific Android-based devices, and they may vary by region."
That is probably because Twitter is not really popular in Germany. Looking at the numbers [1] I am still surprised because I would have expected something even lower not knowing a single active Twitter user personally.
I'm aware that German translations of English sentences are about 30% longer, but by that logic Twitter should only be popular in countries with logographic or ideographic writing systems like Twitter is in Japan.
jatorre's assumption that location is deactivated seems to be an appropriate explanation.
Yup. Well: it was Nokia, a paper pulp mill named after the nearby river/town, that diverged into tires and then electronics (pivoting appears to be a very Finnish practice). When they focused on cellphones, they sold the tire division as ‘Nokian’ (the genitive of Nokia, as in: ‘of Nokia’) but the main valuable brand is now apparently ‘Hakkapeliitta’ for winter tires. The name ‘Nokia’ however remains associated to a company that made tires in the XXth century, like ‘Ma Bell’ might not exist anymore in the US, but still means something.
