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What #OpenStreetMap routing method would you use to draw a reasonably efficient route to visit a number of coordinates (dozens, hundreds of places)?

#OpenRouteService is the only option mentioned in wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tr .

For example: tour of 35 #Helsinki city #libraries. I did the track manually on #GraphHopper and imported it on #uMap. Surely there's a better way?
graphhopper.com/maps/?point=60
umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/h

Executive Order "Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy" gives in Section 2 a laundry list -
(iv) is the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)

Do you use digitized newspapers at a site maintained by your state library, like North Carolina's digitalnc.org/ or Georgia Historic Newspapers at the Digital Library of Georgia gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.u

Tell your Congress Critters that you support these resources.

@academicchatter
@genealogy
#Libraries #Museums #IMLS

get library cards and use them often (online e-book and audiobook rentals count!). sign up to volunteer at your local library. donate money to your library’s general fund. run for a spot on the library board.

join and participate in your local “friends of the library” group. donate books (if your library accepts book donations). set up your own little free library. vote for library funding when it’s on your local ballot.

I've been upset about Clarivate/ProQuest's surprise exit of "perpetual access" ebooks. I thought it'd be cathartic to blog about but it might have made me angrier. The big problem is that librarians have gradually ceded our control of collections & collection-building in the digital realm to a few commercial vendors. Among other things, this has professional ethical implications. We must host our own digital resources or be subject to censorship and extortion. chroknowlogy.ca/memory-institu #libraries

Ik kan er echt niet bij! Hoe haal je het in je hoofd om bibliotheken te sluiten ("to reduce") ?! In de VS is het nu zo ver, en daarmee geeft Trump de blauwdruk voor Nederland. Bezuinigingen op het onderwijs zijn al gepland! Waar gaat dit heen?!
This is not what democracy looks like.
whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/202

#libraries #library #books #politics #ExecutiveOrder #USA #VS #bibliotheken @bibliotheken

@romancelandia @bookstodon #Romancelandia
"The guide to contested Illinois public school board elections, taking place April 1, is live.

This guide is different from the public library guide, in that it's intended to be 1. collaborative and 2. an exercise in how to find info on local elections."

#Libraries #Illinois #BookBans

buttondown.com/wellsourced/arc

Well Sourced by Kelly Jensen · The Illinois Library Lovers Guide to Public Library Elections, April 1, 2025Von Well Sourced by Kelly Jensen

The Guerrilla-Librarian Resistance

“My dad’s from Bosnia, and that’s informed my outlook on what can be irretrievably lost,” he said, citing the destruction of nearly two million books when Sarajevo’s National Library was shelled in 1992. Now he’s teaching dozens of Americans to save data from their own rogue government
#libraries #DOGE #RESIST
newyorker.com/news/the-lede/th

The New Yorker · The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s PurgeVon Julian Lucas