Another #GoogleMaps vs #OpenStreetMap comparison. One of biggest entities of the world, with budget surpassing many nation states vs bunch of quite loosely gathered individuals ~~working~~ playing on their free time. Another reminder who's the stronger side, if we only manage to get off our collective ass and do something for a common goal.
OSM is great. There are several errors on GM in my area - things like footpaths shown as roads. We report them, sometimes they fix it, but after a while it reverts to the error anyway. Fuck only knows what their people are doing. OSM has it correct. The only thing I still use is street view, if there's an alternative to that please tell me!
All services above aren't open (that is, they're free to view and will gladly accept your contribution).
Then there's Panoramax. Open, federated, something I'd love to love; the project itself and at least one instance are even here, in Fediverse (@Panoramax, @MapComplete ). Unfortunately (and contrary to all the services above and google street view), it doesn't work on my machine, complaining about WebGL; apparently my old integrated Intel card is out-of-fashion already.
First of all, @panoramax is a very young project, so coverage is quite small. Only in #France - where the project started - there is significant coverage.
Because it is federated and self-hostable, it was a fitting solution to host the images that people take when contributing to #OpenStreetMap with #MapComplete
About the 'WebGL': MapLibre depends on it to render the maps. Some browsers do block #webGL to resist fingerprinting. You might be able to enable it per website.
pa27
in reply to Brie Mmm • • •OSM has it correct.
The only thing I still use is street view, if there's an alternative to that please tell me!
Brie Mmm
in reply to pa27 • • •There is. Or are, even. But.
All services above aren't open (that is, they're free to view and will gladly accept your contribution).
Then there's Panoramax. Open, federated, something I'd love to love; the project itself and at least one instance are even here, in Fediverse (@Panoramax, @MapComplete ). Unfortunately (and contrary to all the services above and google street view), it doesn't work on my machine, complaining about WebGL; apparently my old integrated Intel card is out-of-fashion already.
MapComplete
in reply to Brie Mmm • • •@pa27
First of all, @panoramax is a very young project, so coverage is quite small. Only in #France - where the project started - there is significant coverage.
Because it is federated and self-hostable, it was a fitting solution to host the images that people take when contributing to #OpenStreetMap with #MapComplete
About the 'WebGL': MapLibre depends on it to render the maps. Some browsers do block #webGL to resist fingerprinting. You might be able to enable it per website.