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Great! Welcome to the #OpenStreetMap community 🙂

Please note that the #OrganicMaps developer community has forked it under the name @CoMaps due to governance and future takeover concerns. #CoMaps has replaced Organic Maps as my first recommendation for an OSM app.

#OsmAnd has been mentioned as a more powerful alternative to CoMaps/Organic Maps. However, if someone doesn’t need offline maps (maybe they’re low on storage), or maybe you need to share a place on OSM with someone who doesn’t have CoMaps/Organic Maps/OsmAnd installed - check out osmapp.org/ (@osmapp), which is a progressive web app with multilingual vector tiles, navigation, photos from Wikimedia Commons, 3D buildings, indoor maps, and more.

mapcomplete.org/ (@MapComplete) is another web app worth checking out. It works on all devices, the concept of themed maps helps you discover some of the possibilities of OSM, and it has a beginner-friendly quiz-like editor similar to StreetComplete.

Most notably, #MapComplete shows you photos of places (including photos of restaurant menus!) from #Panoramax (@panoramax) , and ratings and reviews from #MangroveReviews (@mangroveReviews) …and it allows you to easily add them yourself using only your OSM account. Panoramax and Mangrove Reviews are libre (“open”) data projects just like OSM, and can help all OSM apps.

I’ve heard that Magic Earth (proprietary) uses OSM data and has traffic information too. Worth a look?


I've been using #OrganicMaps on #Android as replacement for Google Maps.

So far so good.

The only complaints are that I sometimes need traffic because I live in a traffic hell and the map data often does not include a business, in particular, that I'm heading to...

So I made an account at #OpenStreetMaps and started adding the missing businesses I find.

It is a stupid easy way for you to contribute to an open project. You should try it. Help round out the data where you live!


One thing I miss in #OpenStreetMap, #Organicmaps and so on are contextual images. One thing I don't miss are all the ads. Wikimedia has a lot of contextual photos released under a #CreativeCommons license. (wikishootme.toolforge.org/) Couldn't it be possible to create an integration for OSM to pull images from Wikimedia into a map-app like Organic Maps? That would be awesome.


#OpenStreetMap for #Portland is so extremely outdated that I discovered there used to be a restaurant called Daruma Sushi that closed in 2019 in the same space that is currently hosting Feral. Orange & Blossom was missing entirely. I tried to update both, but since #OrganicMaps didn’t let me log in, I’m not sure if my updates will sit in a queue somewhere…

In any case, #OSM is far from being a reliable #GoogleMaps replacement, unless you somehow already know exactly where you’re going 🙃



Google have apparently automated getting rid of negative reviews resulting from their decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico. The only sensible thing to do is to try to stop using the products of billionaire owned American companies, who are *all* demonstrating that they were willing to at the very least bend for fascists, if not actively support fascism.

This came up as part of my continuing process of removing everything which benefits American billionaires from my phone.

I'm now using #organicMaps instead on my phone. It's about 1000 times faster because it doesn't waste time in continuously trying to show you ads.

organicmaps.app/
openstreetmap.org

#GulfOfMexico #google #BillionaireTaxDodgers #OligarchUSA #DeGooglization #DeAmericanisation


#OrganicMaps should be added as the number one alternative for Google Maps IMHO.


This is what hides Organic Maps from F-Droid search by default?
Really?
A hotel widget to fucking kayak dot com and... the download server for maps? Yikes.

That sucks, F-Droid. Arguably the kayak.com thing is funny, yes, but... The maps CDN? :(

#OrganicMaps #FDroid