Saw this on HackerNews via @[email protected]
My Mastodon post about it & @[email protected]'s reply linking to OpenStreetMap's documentation with an example to find banks far away from police stations
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
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Is this satire? Maps help people find places, that's the concern?
yeah it's satire lol
i didn't know that openstreetmap had overpass, and i found it funny that one of their examples is to find banks far away from police stations