I’ve been contributing to OpenStreetMap for a few years now. Basically it’s a map that anyone can edit: Wikipedia for maps. I maintain a few software projects related to OpenStreetMap: openaedmap-frontend: frontend of OpenAEDMap project it’s a worldwide map of automated external defibrillators data comes from OpenStreetMap users can add new AEDs directly on our website osm-wtp hosted at https://starsep.com/osm-wtp/ compares public transport data from Warsaw Transport Authority with OpenStreetMap it’s a tool for finding errors and missing data in public transport data more details in this blog post (only in Polish) NextbikeOSM, RooveeOSM, and MevoOSM tools for comparing bike-sharing data with OpenStreetMap: Nextbike, Roovee, and Mevo respectively forked from javnik36/NextbikeOSM hosted at https://starsep.

I took part in the qualifications for World Escape Room Championship 2024 competition. It was a great experience. Qualifications were online point-and-click game with puzzles. I was a member of PKP team with my friends: Mateusz, Tomasz, and Magda. We managed to solve all the puzzles in 03:40:15 which gave us 35th place. See full results at https://erchamp.com/level/intro/16 It was first time we participated, and we are happy with the result.

This is the list of CLI tools I found useful someday. It is useful reference as remembering all script names and options is cumbersome. Especially those I use rarely. ripgrep rg (ripgrep): great grep replacement. Recursive search and respects .gitignore by default. Possible to configure per repository with .rgignore Useful options: -i: case insentive -v: invert matching -A n(after), -B n(before), -C n(context). n is number of lines -u, -uu, -uuu: unrestricted searching with gitignored, hidden, and binary files -l: list files matching -e: pattern (regex) to search for.

What is Nix? I recently started using Nix. It is a package manager and a build system. It uses its own functional programming language. At the moment I use it only as a package manager. For years, I maintained Ansible playbook for setting up my development environments. Nix allows to simplify it and eventually might even replace it. Instead of installing software via apt/pipx/downloading binaries from GitHub I use Nix.

Bing StreetSide is alternative to Google Street View which can be used for OpenStreetMap mapping. There is a MicrosoftStreetside plugin for JOSM but it doesn’t work for me due to dependencies of JavaFX/360 views. I have managed to use it via Utilsplugin2. Edit => Preferences (F12) => Utilsplugin2 settings Add new row with name Bing StreetSide and url https://www.bing.com/maps?cp={#lat}%7E{#lon}&lvl=19.0&style=x. In the case of issues one can edit customurl.txt. For Linux/Flatpak it’s located at ~/.