Show HN: WordDumb, a calibre plugin that helps you read books This plugin creates Word Wise and X-Ray sqlite files for Kindle format books, it also adds these data as tags and footnotes to EPUB books. If an e-reader device is connected, it'll send the book and created files to the device. It uses spaCy to find named entities as X-Ray, 22 languages are supported. X-Ray descriptions come from Wikipedia, locator map, Democracy Index and country/city inception data are queried from Wikidata. Wiktionary files downloaded from https://kaikki.org are used for EPUB Word Wise. https://ift.tt/c6aWVAq July 13, 2022 at 08:47AM
Show HN: StreetComplete, an OpenStreetMap Editor for Humans StreetComplete is an OpenStreetMap[0] editor directed at people who want to contribute and want to do this using their smartphone, without learning how to edit things[1]. It is available as an Android application. It is intended to be used as one walks, with quests appearing as markers on the map. Selecting a marker allows one to answer a simple question. The answer will be added to the OpenStreetMap database, with app handling selecting objects for editing, transforming answer into OSM tags and making edits. OpenStreetMap account is needed to apply edits, but it is possible to start without it, make some edits and login/register later. Note: I am not the main author, but I am one of the active contributors. Github page is at https://ift.tt/2g8lasH and https://ift.tt/3nR9PzS shows what was recently released. [0]OpenStreetMap is a Wikipedia of maps, available on the open licence. This dataset is already used for many interestin...
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