People use digital maps for all kinds of purposes, not just navigating while driving.

For example I often look at digital maps as a pedestrian in order to know which direction to walk (even without actually entering navigation mode), or in order to find out where places of interest are around me, and there it definitely helps that the angles are the same in reality as on the map.

Most navigation software doesn’t show the map from the top, but from behind looking forward

only when navigating, not when looking at the map

Mercator is bad as a world map, but the reason why it’s used on most online maps is that those online maps are usually used as local maps, where Mercator is a very good projection. It would be good if online maps switched projections if you zoomed out beyond a certain level.

On a local level (City or State/Province level), where most navigation for non-experts is taking place, the chosen map projection doesn’t matter that much.

Yes, it does, because on a local level you want real-world right angles to be right angles on the map, which Mercator does, but other projections might not…

bei mir sieht alles normal aus

Huh I guess that really makes me think

Yes, and that is mentioned very early in the article in the OP…

I’ve been playing Cities: Skylines for more than ten years and never noticed it had a homelessness mechanic.

I just hate the idea of someone defending a billionare or trillion dollar company for any reason.

Then you have a very simplistic worldview. There are many disputes where different large companies are adversarial to each other, so if you have an opinion about them at all, you need to defend one of them.

For example occasionally media companies will try to get laws passed in various countries to make social media platforms pay for linking to journalistic articles. A stupid and nonsensical idea for many reasons, but by calling it that, I may have just “defended” Meta?

“Defending” when accused of what? The question is somewhat meaningless without knowing that.

Can they rule that if no one is arguing that? Unlikely because this is about commerce, not speech…

No, not at all.

After your edit, it is slightly clearer what you are asking. But this is still a matter of desktop environment more than distro.

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They corrected it in Windows 98, though, and extended the invisible, active target zone of the Start button to the outer 1-pixel boundary of the screen.

Is this actually true? I seem to remember once trying it on Windows 2000 and there it didn’t extend all the way to the edge.

I don’t use iOS, but have read that there are apps for it too. On Android there is something called StreetComplete that is specifically aimed at beginners.

Probably the easiest thing to do on mobile is to add or update nodes describing POIs. For example if a store or restaurant or post box or trash can is missing on the map, you can add that. You can use OsmAnd or, I think, also CoMaps for that.

OSM mapping can be very fun, I started doing it more than half my life ago. :D Not just defibrillators, but lots of other things too!

Can’t argue with that

Depends on where in the world you are. I suspect OP is unaware this isn’t universally true; isn’t there a “US-defaultism” community somewhere here where this could be posted…

The question is somewhat confusing because in the Lemmy interface there isn’t really a difference between local and remote communities. If you can access a remote community from your instance, you have the same subscribe button there as on a local one. Difficult to help you without knowing what you’re currently doing and seeing.