Theft by Google seems to be a growing concern; many users have been suspecting this for some time now. You might want to contact data@openstreetmap.org or post to talk@openstreetmap.org if you can prove it, since Google clearly isn't falling within OSM's license right now if that's the case.

It's not entirely arbitrary, anymore than the distinction is in reality. And it does help filter out irrelevant results if you end up having to figure it by nearest intersection.

So go to osm.org and fix it.

No, it doesn't. However, offline address lookups only work if someone's actually put the addresses into the map. Consider doing that.

Osmand~ on the F-Droid market is my preferred choice. Almost overfeatured bike/hike/car nav app that's got the groundwork in place to go transit, motorcycle and large vehicle as well in the future.

Weird thing is, almost everything Waze does, Scout by TeleNav does using open data.

I honestly can't remember the last time Google Maps was remotely right. But then again, it's been six years since I lived in Portland, and everywhere else I've been since then, Google's been somewhere between flat out wrong or just not available. And I haven't even left the US since 2009.

I'm not aware of an official OSM app, however, there's Osmand~ from F-Droid, and it does offline routing just fine; I used to work as a field service engineer for a Unisys contractor and it was my primary means of navigation in a three-state area, mostly because Google Maps is horribly out of date anywhere but the 10 biggest metros and actually works offline.

Clearly, the son had shit he did not wish to share, with family, or otherwise. Be it GLBTQ, furry, sci-fi, Dr. Who, Mystery Men, Office Space, or Other, clearly, the deceased didn't feel it was necessary to come out, so unless their final wishes were privy to you, respect their wishes. And trust their judgement. Seriously, there's opinions older than I am now from family online that would rather not know that I live in Oklahoma with my boyfriend. Even knowing that it's pretty much a $5 and 45 minute process for us to get married. But enough of my problems...seriously, come out or get off the pot. Literally. If you can't deal with it, stop dragging it out and break up. If you can, let your folks know. It's not 1998 anymore. And I say this as someone who moved to Tulsa to get away from Portland's homophobic culture that punishes anyone who isn't heteronormative or white, based on actual experience as a bisexual Cherokee who grew up native to NE PDX and later Beaverton...Oregon has no room for anyone who isn't willing to work for far less money than it costs to live there, especially if they aren't all Euro-white, cis-gendered, straight, and willing to go against anybody who isn't a heteronormative, white, straight, male, european-descended person. Seriously, google "Whitest city in America" and realise that it doesn't get any better in any state in the Pacific or Mountain time zones...

Seriously, it's 2015. I literally have better shit to do than go to the store during the same hours I'm fucking stuck at work, to get waffles, milk, cheese, bread, ice cream, yogurt, beef, chicken, turkey and bison. I would literally hire my local milkman if I wasn't too far, for literally all of this shit. And if he could finish my grocery list, "and then some." Seriously, Jesus fucking Christ, how is it I'm in 2015 and I'm still dependent on European half-ancestors to get this through people's heads that I like basics like fish and bread and will pay a subscription for it? Is America _really_ this backwards? Are we really this Bed, Bath and Beyond comprehension? Fuuuck me in the goat ass...

So, still gonna have to play a LOT of catchup on this. Shiny hardware is nothing without an application for it. OpenSimulator and Linden Lab are solving this equation from the other end.

OK, some things really make me wonder.

• Fast Company still exists, even after trying to sue Fucked Company, repeatedly, for trademark infringement, quite fraudulently given parody laws?
• Fast Company's starting to do things that Pud from Fucked Company would do?

Seriously, my mind is blown here.

Yup, being a dick to public transportation users, cyclists, delivery drivers and everyone else because your price fixing racket's getting some competition is totally the way to handle the situation.

...now my senator (fucktard Tom Coburn) is going to start claiming climate change is a good thing, even while birds explode midflight in August from the heat.

And even then, depends on the company and whether or not they're going to let you prove you're capable of managing your shit properly. My last job was as field service engineer, and it seemed like the entire field service crew all had a DUI on their record. But, as long as you show up to work sober and get shit done, they couldn't care less what you did off hours.