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grant 🍞@toast.ooo to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

OpenStreetMap's Overpass API can be used to find robbable banks

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OpenStreetMap's Overpass API can be used to find robbable banks

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grant 🍞@toast.ooo to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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Saw this on HackerNews via @hn50@social.lansky.name

My Mastodon post about it & @watmildon@en.osm.town’s reply linking to OpenStreetMap’s documentation with an example to find banks far away from police stations

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  • TCB13@lemmy.world
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    I don’t see a problem with this, seems perfectly reasonable an API that let’s you query whatever you want. By drawing attention to this you might get some “easily offendable people” to notice OSM and make a fuzz about this which will result in a worse API for everybody.

  • litchralee@sh.itjust.works
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    OSM can definitely find you a bank near a freeway ramp, but it can also find you a bank near a creek to make an inflatable boat getaway. What it can’t do is arrange for decoys to confuse the police while you eacape.

    The inflatable boat robber was ultimately caught and sentenced a year later.

  • whou@lemmy.ml
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    OSM is such a badass project

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      I am a contributor and I frequently bow out of decisions and because it gets pretty brutal.

      But I feel like a ant compared to giants because their conversations go way over my head.

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    I’m probably missing something obvious, but what does distance from a highway ramp have to do with a bank being robbable?

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      You need the highway section of the mission to shoot the cops while the NPC is driving.

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