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How is this not framed?

Yup. BiH’s coast is in a tiny gulf that Croatia has bridged. They could easily turn it into a lake if they really wanted.

It’s a Persona 5 menu background

Try integrating with OpenStreetMap Traces and Tapiriik for ease-of-use. Recommend running your own instance for the latter. Not necessarily for the minimum viable product but consider this into the future.

Good bike computers like Garmin’s allow GPX export so HW compatibility is there. It’s a few manual steps but you can make the process automatic for example by syncing your HW tracker to Tapiriik (15+ brands supported), which then can auto-download GPX files to your computer via Dropbox (or without Dropbox if you run it locally), and then you can auto-upload those to OSM with one of these scripts running on your machine.

The map is a community effort and the lack of social features, which caters to introverts, keeps focus on the end goal - an accurate map of the world. Other platforms are suitable for social activities and you can link to your OSM trace from there.

Yes, seeing the trace geometry only with no map is a letdown. That’s why I suggested the visualizer in another comment. It would certainly improve the shareability of traces.

OSM doesn’t produce any hardware. They are a wiki-based world mapping effort. In addition, they run a PNG tile provider (so you can embed their map on a website), an article wiki for how to edit the map etc. and the trace repository.

You can use OSM and record traces using various apps mentioned on their wiki.

That’s the neat part, there isn’t. Post about your trips where you want, you can then refer to the OSM trace.

People have given consent for you to improve OSM with that data though. For example, one GPS trace can be pretty inaccurate (especially under a canopy where aerial imagery also doesn’t work) but you can compile a dozen (get them with a location-specific query) and get a very good average. You can message people about those edits, and add notes.

Also, StreetComplete gives you achievements for completing quests and uploading traces. They are automated but it makes it look like actual people are grateful. Of course most people who use OSM will never actually thank the contributors but you’re still doing a great service by improving the map around you.

There is a great community effort at https://www.openstreetmap.org/traces

You can directly upload there with StreetComplete or Vespucci. Or exports from any tracking app that gives you a GPX file (including Strava I think). Otherwise, don’t really expect FOSS-minded people to share their trips.

What frontend are you using? Surely not the default web interface or Voyager!

Video posts totally work on Lemmy. However, the video must be on the “free and open internet”. Allow me to explain.

Lemmy, like Reddit, only allows for text posts and link posts. You can make “media posts” because most instances will allow media upload via a pict-rs server running on a subdomain, seamlessly creating a link post when you do.

However, this only applies to media you can obtain a direct link to. Other than instance-specific* pict-rs, the only major public sites that allow direct URL hosting are Catbox and GitHub. We don’t have deals with major video hosting sites like YouTube, TikTok, v.redd.it, imgur etc. to embed videos when someone posts a link to the website the video is hosted on. Therefore, any link posts will have to be opened as an external website, which is very annoying indeed, especially for the aforementioned JS-heavy sites (unless the other user has an alternative frontend app such as Piped or NewPipe set up).

* Instance shenanigans: Some instances impose a very small size limit to uploads or only allow them a certain time after account creation (both for lemm.ee for instance). You won’t usually see admins sharing what restrictions they put in place, but we can get a good guess from the defaults (error 502 currently, see archive). These defaults remain unchanged by many instance admins and the TL;DR is:

Applies to any media

• 10 MiB limit

Static pictures

• 10000x10000 or 40 MP
• all major formats (webp, jpg, png, jxl)

Animated pictures (colloquially known as gifs)

• 1920x1920 or 2.08 MP (basically 1920x1080 in either orientation)
• all major formats (webp (recommended), apng, gif, avif)

Videos

• 3840x3840 or 8.3 MP (basically 3840x2160 in either orientation)
• 900 frames (that’s like 30-40 seconds but you can get longer with something like a VFR slideshow)
• no sound, I think
• all major formats supported but unless it’s VP9 in a WebM container, it will be transcoded by the server and the timeout of the ffmpeg operation is like 15 seconds! This means that it’s practically impossible to upload any but the shortest videos unless they’re VP9 in WebM already!

You can see that video upload is very limiting! If you’re tech-savvy you can get a lot out of the 10 MiB and 900 frames but you need some ffmpeg skills. Therefore, your best bet is uploading to catbox.moe or GitHub (via a repo and using https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yourUsername/repoName/branchSuchAsMain/imagePath.png or the issue loophole (max 25 MiB)), obtaining a direct link to the file and pasting it as a link post URL. Or just paste the YouTube, TikTok, v.redd.it, imgur etc. URL and deal with the fact people will have to open the heavy website (or their alt-frontend app like NewPipe).

Why can’t you do it yourself?

Probably because it’s hard to compile a kernel on an iPad 😂

They’re asking a senior engineer to spend a week at minimum poking around an unknown device. That’s going to cost way more than an all-new security camera system. Anyway, they might try opening the video files with ffmpeg, or VLC: I have a Dahua camera (also from a dumpster) that produces .dav files - a proprietary container for H264 or H265 but VLC plays it. There may be a FOSS client available for the camera’s IP interface (like Dahua’s weird fork of ONVIF) but likely not for iOS.

Sell it and get something with an existing FOSS firmware. And a laptop (dumpster ones work too). What you’re asking for is $1000 upfront, at minimum, with no satisfaction guarantee.

If you’re willing to do most of the work yourself, I’d suggest finding an official firmware update and running binwalk on it. Also take good photos of the PCB and look for datasheets of every chip. Then you’ll be able to pose specific questions and maybe get decent help.

Still, it’s probably best to set up ONVIF client software or something.

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