alt Hacker News"you fly over smoothly like a pilot" (so, with my view limited by the cockpit, and constrained to mandatory airways?)
"Everything comes from freely available geodata, straight from its publishers" (as opposed to using "freely available geodata" through mediators?)
"joined by thousands of open maps from the Library" (what Library? Of Congress?)
"Kugelblitz instances in the same network share it with each other if you wish" (yeah "if you wish" sure is how a human would phrase an optional setting)
"Kugelblitz speaks German and English and uses the units of your choice" (same)
and many more
It's slop writing.
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> as opposed to using "freely available geodata" through mediators?
I think that's the idea, yes. Usually the mediator is the publisher of the software who at least maintains a proxy, but often recombobulates the data in a way that makes for sense for their software. This is also doesn't leave the original publisher paying for the software user's traffic. Probably not much an issue for a first release.
No, it's not. It sounds exactly like Tim Pritlove when he speaks German. Not everyone is a native speaker, you know?
In one of his recent podcasts he explained that he wanted to create a mixture of Google Earth and a libray. So "Library" is specifically meant as a name for the mixed data source aggregation.
To be clear: The entire software is vibecoded in a language Pritlove doesn't even have worked with prior to that. But when it comes to talking about his ideas Pritlove surely does not need a LLM. This guy basically started the German podcast scene and has been talking about software for at least 30 years.