Exciting news for mappers in Pretoria (as myself): the Esri World Imagery was recently updated to a much sharper, more detailed version. This makes mapping way more pleasant and reliable. Awesome!
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OpenStreetMap: Updated Esri World Imagery in Pretoria
Ethical Tech Giving Guide
Giving presents to someone who cares about Soft- and Hardware Freedom is difficult (I know my wife struggles). The Free Software Foundation’s Ethical Tech Giving…
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Logo of the OpenStreetMap project. Ken Vermette, OSM/CC BY-SA 2.0
State of the Map 2020 in Cape Town
It’s official: the coming State of the Map is set in Cape Town!
Sony Xperia XA2: successfully update LineageOS 16.0
Updating LineageOS 16.0 on your Sony Xperia XA2 can result in no network, bluetooth and Wi-Fi. It’s a common problem, but there is a solution: update the firmware, but to an older version than 50.2.A.0.*. After that, updating to newer LineageOS versions won’t be a problem anymore. Here’s a step-by-step guide how it worked for me.
Note: If…
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Vorbis nominal bitrate at quality levels for 44.1 kHz stereo input. The new libvorbis v1.2 usually compresses better than these values (effective bitrate may vary).
| Quality | Nominal bitrate | |
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| Official Xiph.Org Foundation Vorbis | … | |
