If you are looking for something to channel that energy into, you could help improve open street map using streetcomplete: https://streetcomplete.app/
I assumed that in urban USA the map would be fairly complete and opportunities for edits would be somewhat rare. My assumption was very wrong. The app showed a dozen quests just outside of my office building. Thanks for suggesting it!
There’s always things to improve or to add. Road surfaces, benches, trash bins, table tennis spots, etc.
StreetComplete on Android helps make some common tasks really easy to do.
Surely military drones will use OpenStreetMap data? Even the Russians and Iranians can use it for whatever purpose they like.
Yes. Just like editing wikipedia will help train models that are used for data classification in north korea or whatever.
It's a feature of open data, it's open and usable by anyone.
... for any purpose.
Yes. Or you can license it for specific purposes. But in general open data refers to data that is open to use by anyone, for any purpose, without restrictions except in some cases attribution.
A license only means something if you can enforce it. This means you can catch violations, and get courts to enforce it in a way that means something. If you can't catch a violation it is de facto allowed. What a license can restrict is limited by law, and so depending on the terms the court may say "you are not allowed to restrict that: they are allowed, go away". Or the court may impose a fine that is small enough everyone considers it a cost of doing business. How this plays out depends on the violation as well: if the violator can show they did their best to not violate that is very different from intentional violation. (I'm convinced the GPL will be broken - when a company shows they have lots of process to prevent the misuse, but a "rogue employee" hid their actions - the company will pay a fine but won't have to give their source code.)
Yes, there other mobile editor that are arguably more featured (EveryDoor, OSM Go, OsmAnd), but StreetComplete has a nice gamification / simplification of UI that makes editing a breeze.
MapComplete is a nice alternative if you care about some part of the map that are not easily filterable by StreetComplethttps://mapcomplete.org/
StreetComplete is a top app.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a project like mapillary or streetcomplete that forbids military use.
How can I channel my energy into preventing my data from being used for military purposes?