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Has anyone used or contributed to OpenStreetMap? (coeus.sbs)
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I've tried using it over the years but I never liked it because there was no information. So last night I looked at my local city and there is almost no information at all. I spent a few hours last night adding buildings and restaurants and removing incorrect items. It was actually kind of fun and therapeutic and I plan to do more of it tonight. My girlfriend thinks it's dumb and I'm wasting my time because Google maps and Apple maps and Bing maps exists but she just doesn't understand open source.

Edit: Apologies, I just realized this question is not Linux specific.

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[–] palitu@lemmy.perthchat.org 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use it all the time with OSMand. and i have contributed to OSM for years. I just had a look - i start in Sep 2010 (13 years!) and all of my edits (except for a humanitarian tracing excersice for mozambique) i have been to. it is a niice spread:

[–] pietervdvn@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ooohh!! Please, post a bit in the lemmy community as well.

[–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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