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[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 29 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I use Organic Maps regularly and I'd love to get rid of Google Maps eventually, but they don't really fulfill the same purpose to me. It's awesome for hiking (which Google Maps is useless for) but meh for Navigation and almost useless for finding information about shops, restaurants etc in an area.

[–] florge@feddit.uk 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Magic Earth is pretty good for navigation. But yeah OSM is pretty lacking in info about places, whenever I can I try to add details.

[–] boredsquirrel 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is simply because

  1. Google has an OS
  2. The OS has the map app preinstalled
  3. Everyone has an account
  4. You are nagged to add info about POIs afaik, even by shop owners

Meanwhile OSM has nothing. OpenPlaceReviews is confusing as heck. There is no centrally available image host (and you cant just upload insane amounts of data like videos of everything, like on Google).

Things that could lift OSMAnd (which is more poweful but also more confusing and slower than OM) to those standards:

  1. "Just upload a photo" to some host.
  2. A review system that works
  3. API integration for public transport services like DB. Those already do navigation really well, but no routing directions etc.
[–] Rhababerbarbar@tux.social 1 points 1 day ago

The 3 things lacking in #openstreetmaps and #osmand or #organicmaps that would leap it waaay above Google Maps.

#Google #Maps isnt even working well. They simply

  1. Host tons of data
  2. Have a review system
  3. Have public transport integrations
  4. Are used by millions of people, i.e. traffic analysis etc works
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