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stalker , 3 months ago to askscience in Is it possible to receive an electric shock when you *stop* touching something?

I am not expert, but seems plausable. Shock comes from high voltage electric charge jumping from metal to skin. If you press it, you are part of the electric charge. If you are far away, charge cannot jump. Problem is only when you are couple of centimeters close to it. AFAIK, this is not current, but electric discharge, I think it cannot kill you (it is just very unpleasant), but maybe someone else knows better?

stalker , 11 months ago to asklemmy in What is a street name you would want to see in your city?

Belgrade, Serbia got you covered: www.openstreetmap.org/way/39596307 (we were once socialist country, but more and more streets are losing their original names nowadays:(

stalker , 1 year ago to technology in Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and TomTom have launched their open map dataset

Licence is compatible, but data they have is of…questionable quality…to say at least. For example, I think building dataset is Odbl and I think it contains ML-detected buildings. These got released years ago (becase they had to release it as OdbL to mix them in their maps). Rarely who imported these buildings in OSM as there are lot pf false positives and what not. So, just because they released something under odbl/cdla doesn’t mean it is good for OSM and that it could be imported (for example speed profiles, if we ever get real gold data). Overture is more of a playground for big tech to play without OSM telling them what is good and what is not

stalker , 1 year ago to technology in Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and TomTom have launched their open map dataset

OsmAnd works on iOS too