Me : let's watch some YouTube my favorite creators

[slothrop@chaos.social]

@arianvp MIT-educated USians can’t wrap their head around the concept of understanding several languages

[pinkberet@transfem.social]

@StarkRG@myside-yourside.net @arianvp@functional.cafe Unless that for-profit company is called Microsoft (bing maps) or Apple (apple maps) which both uses OSM data for their mapping apps. But it's a fair trade, given they actually sink lots of money in OSM as a way to counter the Google machine. Plus it's good to say "but actually the data is used in X and Y.

[benjamineskola@hachyderm.io]

@arianvp Apple Maps has done this thing for a while where, if you set the default mode of transport to ‘walking’, over a certain distance (5km I think) it’ll ignore you and assume you want to drive.

I sort of understand the decision to ignore the default: it’s probably true that I’m not going to walk 10km for a random errand. (If I am going to walk that far it’s an intentional choice.) But you can’t configure the fallback. Even if somewhere is too far to conveniently walk, that doesn’t mean driving is an option.

[musevg@23.social]

@arianvp
You're one of these silly Europeans still believing in mother tongues, cultural diversity and windmill powerplants?

[c1710@social.c1710.de]

@arianvp I don't think DB Navigator is much better in that regard

[alper@rls.social]

@monoxane @jj @amyisard @arianvp @noodlemaz You don’t need real time. It’s not as if we have any real time data in Berlin for anything.

Also the algorithms by now are more than tractable and the volumes of data that you’re talking about quite modest.

[alister@hachyderm.io]

@resuna @deathkitten @ainmosni @arianvp Ob- #NotJustBikes on cycling maps in the Netherlands/Amsterdam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csHdwHTteOw ‍️ ‍️

[puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social]

@arianvp@functional.cafe the ai autodub is so bad i feel like i am having a stroke anytime i run into it

[stag@mk.absturztau.be]

@arianvp@functional.cafe press the button to turn off captions...

[samir@mastodon.functional.computer]

@arianvp I find this so confusing because I have met plenty of people who work at Google and they’re from everywhere and loads of them speak two or more languages. Many of them are now directors or more senior, because they’ve been there for 10–20 years. Who the fuck is making these decisions?

[bussphomet@app.wafrn.net]

@arianvp@functional.cafe

Usually by entering youtube from one of the pipes
Got much better options
And dowloading

[jj@social.jjgadgets.tech]

@alper  @monoxane https://datamall.lta.gov.sg/content/datamall/en/dynamic-data.html

We do in SG

Pretty sure that's what Citymapper uses anyway, either this or some other API (never dug around enough to check yet), but point is they are available here.

@amyisard @arianvp @noodlemaz

[eestileib@tech.lgbt]

@penpencilbrush @deathkitten @ainmosni @arianvp

I use a wheelchair and I like to go places too.

[transbian_arsonists@catwithaclari.net]

@arianvp@functional.cafe only way as far as i know is a plugin for your browser

- posted by Seraphine
Headmate Hopper

[jcastroarnaud@mathstodon.xyz]

@arianvp I use the extension "YouTube Anti Translate" in Firefox to avoid such madness, and only use Youtube in the browser.

[alan@mindly.social]

@resuna @arianvp I have been known to enter latitude and longitude as my destination. Override that, algorithm!

Next year: "there's nothing at (lat,long), did you mean {location of nearest advertiser}?"

[resuna@ohai.social]

@alan @arianvp

It will do that. I deliberately set a landmark at the east most parking entrance of the building. It still navigated me to the southern entrance, because that is apparently where it believes there is an entrance to that block. And then its plotted route included internal directions inside the parking floor to the eastern entrance.

[artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay]

@monoxane @jj @amyisard @alper @arianvp @noodlemaz it depends on where, e.g. the us requires all agencies to publish static gtfs feeds, and many also publish free realtime feeds in gtfs-rt. for the nyc subway they're linked, no auth required, from https://api.mta.info/#/subwayRealTimeFeeds

[stevegis_ssg@mas.to]

@arianvp

Because I had most recently used it for crossing the city, google maps recently offerred me walking directions from Boston to Montreal. (I'm a fast walker but no.)

[artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay]

@monoxane @jj @amyisard @alper @arianvp @noodlemaz it's occasionally possible to scrape data for gtfs-rt, e.g. it's been done for amtrak, but for most sites it would take too long to scrape their realtime data to be useful. non-real-time data is easier, i've done it for china and am currently working on doing it for russia.