right, so this is the second one, i.e. the thiel-funded "centrist" magazine that coincidentally publishes writing from people like nina power (famous for having her alt account unmasked and her pro-nazi posts revealed).
far be it from me to criticise anyone for trying to get this website's userbase to care about anything other than agentic LLM lifehacks, but this kind of "philosophy" mag is not really a big improvement if it's just laundering reactionary ideas through a centrist-yet-contrarian technocrat aesthetic
A problem of open GeoData is very much their coverage and availability in the EU. While the countries and their survey offices are required to release high value datasets in standardized form, some simply don’t. In Germany we have 16 states and every one of them has their own standard and pipelines for generating that data, and everyone releases it differently. Take LiDAR: Bavaria should be distributing it through OpenData portals and is required to by the EU, but they simply ignore that and charge 8000€ for it. Building international or even EU wide geo-projects from OpenData like https://hillsha.de is difficult because of that, you never get full coverage.
But as a tool for mapbuilders for small areas or planned tours i think this could be great
I miss such a landmark feature in all available routing apps and think it will become standard in selfdriving cars where there is more possibility for the driver to look around the landscape
