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Detail on OpenStreetMap

The OpenStreetMap data model allows for far more detail than would ever be useful to be recorded. For different people, different levels of detail are going to be useful and sometimes it can be hard to decide how much detail to record when out surveying.

Obviously, the less detail you record the wider the area you can cover, so there’s one trade-off you can consider straight away. In more densely populated areas, you’re likely not to be the only person mapping and so you can distribute the workload and tackle higher detail in smaller areas.

Free Software Efforts (2015W51)

For the last week I have been stuck in England. For the vast majority of that time, I’ve had nothing to do except work on Debian and this blog post documents some of the things I worked on.

Obviously spending a whole week on Debian, there’s going to be some packaging involved. The following packages got new versions in unstable this last week:

  • cowdancer
  • debian-installer-launcher
  • chirp
  • python-flask-rdf

Packaging updates were one of the simpler tasks tackled this week though. I spent a lot of time this week on Debian Live along with others in the # debian-live IRC channel. Over the last week we achieved a number of things, possibly the most important being that all the generic live support packages (i.e. live-boot, live-config and live-tools) have now been converted into native packages, have their VCS repositories hosted on Alioth and have seen a good number of patches merged from the BTS and from the old patch system. All future patches will be managed via the BTS for Debian Live, as with other Debian projects.

YubiKey + udev follow-ups

In my previous post, I talked about the udev hack I had used with the YubiKey and how it was not the correct way to do things. I recieved a lot of feedback on this post, and here I’m hoping to summarise what the correct way to do it is.

The rule I was originally using was:

SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1050",ATTRS{idProduct}=="0111", OWNER="irl"

The problem with this rule was that it always made my own username the owner of the YubiKey. For my use on my laptop, this was fine, as I’m the only user ever logged into my laptop, but this is not the right way to do this.

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