If I had a dollar for every time I've seen an American on the Internet assume that anything published in the English language must be US-centric...

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bravoetch 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You still wouldn't have nearly as many dollars if you subtracted the times those people were correct in that assumption. Personally I assumed the site would be global. It doesn't have any info though, so I rely on finding out somewhere else I guess.

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lucideer 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> Personally I assumed the site would be global

The only reason you would assume a site would be global is if your definition of "global" is "works in the US" & you never bother to check for support of other countries. I live in the anglosphere outside of the US & I encounter more than enough US-only web projects for that not be to a default assumption I hold.

Most sites are not global - it's very odd to assume they would be.

	▲	BigToach 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Another reason could be that calling this OpenTrafficMap gives an impression that it is similar to OpenStreetMap, which is global.

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hamdingers 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It seems pretty weird to use all English words in the domain for a service that offers no English translations and operates in no English speaking countries.

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moooo99 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The map is based on international standards and technically it does not restrict locations to German speaking countries.

The authors of this project also shared that they intend on publishing more around this project. This seems to be mostly an early demo that was intended for the live event.

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walrus01 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The Germans and Danes and Swedes and Norwegians I see on the Internet developing and publishing software often have a better grasp of the English language than many born in the USA Americans.

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		That's true for Scandinavians, Germans are not as gut.
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perching_aix 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is expecting something to work in the US the same as expecting it to be US-centric?

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rootusrootus 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Conversely, if I had a penny for every time someone complained about Americans... ;-)

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amazingamazing 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is an American site to be fair. Mapbox is also an American company.

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estimator7292 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

OpenStreetMaps works in the US and much of the rest of the world.

It's entirely reasonable to expect that a project with an extremely similar name would also work in most of the world, which just happens to include the USA.

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ufocia 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It does have an English name, so why the surprise?

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exegete 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean I don’t anyone thought this was in the US since the UI is not in English. Maybe it’s more of, this neat, wish we had it here?