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I stopped using Google Maps in Android Auto and switched to an open-source navigator that respects my privacy

Google Maps collects 24 data categories from your phone.
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Java Ecosystem Advances with Strict Field Initialization JEP Amid Cross-Platform Malware Threats

The global Java development ecosystem experienced significant structural changes this week following the introduction of a new OpenJDK enhancement draft alongside warnings from cybersecurity ...
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I found a free map app that works with no signal — and no subscription

A map app that does not panic without internet already has better emotional control than I do.
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Street Racer (Beta) — Real-World Map Racing

Street Racer is a browser-based racing game where real cities become the tracks. Instead of handcrafted levels, Street Racer loads live street geometry from OpenStreetMap and turns actual places into ...
IEEE

OpenSentinelMap: A Large-Scale Land Use Dataset using OpenStreetMap and Sentinel-2 Imagery

Abstract: Remote sensing data is plentiful, but downloading, organizing, and transforming large amounts of data into a format readily usable by modern machine learning methods is a challenging and ...
GitHub

CGView is a Java package for generating high quality, zoomable maps of circular genomes.

Sample maps created using CGView are available here. CGView was written and is maintained by Paul Stothard stothard@ualberta.ca. The map.png file is written to the current directory on the host system ...
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Taiwan (Republic of China)

As with China, Taiwan claims sovereignty over all the island groups in the South China Sea and jurisdiction over adjacent waters: Spratlys (Nansha), Paracel (Xisha), Pratas (Dongsha), Macclesfield ...
IEEE

OpenStreetMap: User-Generated Street Maps

Abstract: The OpenStreetMap project is a knowledge collective that provides user-generated street maps. OSM follows the peer production model that created Wikipedia; its aim is to create a set of map ...