[HN Gopher] Osm-finder: "line-network" geolocation tool
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       Osm-finder: "line-network" geolocation tool
        
       Author : mzs
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2022-10-07 15:48 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | linuxdude314 wrote:
       | Really cool, but why use lua? Is that common in the PostGIS
       | ecosystem?
        
         | Doctor_Fegg wrote:
         | It's common in the OpenStreetMap ecosystem, because an embedded
         | scripting language is really the best way to regularise OSM's
         | tag soup. osm2pgsql (as used here), OSRM, and tilemaker all use
         | it in broadly similar ways.
        
         | Woeps wrote:
         | No OP, but I use it sometimes because it seems to me to have a
         | "small" core of functionality. Which made it easy for me to
         | pickup.
         | 
         | It's also pretty fast.
         | 
         | Downside is that array's start at 1 (not suchs a big deal once
         | you're used to it)
        
       | mzs wrote:
       | blog post about this and other submissions:
       | https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2022/10/06/automated-ma...
        
         | rosnd wrote:
         | Huh, last I checked bellingcat links were banned from HN for
         | being too "controversial".
         | 
         | I guess dangs politics have shifted?
        
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