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.
OSM is huge for backcountry. Hiking trails, skiing, etc. There is nothing better.
Are the communities for skiing and especially backcountry yet?
Not any good ones that I’ve found for backpacking
Gaia?
I’m pretty sure Gaia Maps uses the info on OSM
There is also OpenSkiMap
I did a little bit in my area, haven’t had the motivation to start up again.
BTW there’s now an OSM community [email protected]
Subbed!
Pokemon Go uses OSM for the map data in the game. I’ve submitted park trails by tracing them in the satellite view and now the game has all the trails.
I contribute regularly. I used to waste a lot of time watching TV series, instead now I contribute to OSM.
Yup!
I have switched from Google Maps to Here we go for years now and been loving it
Sorry, but HERE-maps does not use OSM data. They list their sources here: https://legal.here.com/en-gb/terms/general-content-supplier-terms-and-notices
You’re right - could have sworn that they used it. NIffy website i did just found was https://osm-apps.zottelig.ch/ that points out the different variety of OSM. On a side note, I have switched over to /e/OS on my main cellphone and it uses Magic Earth, which def uses OSM.
Thanks for the clarify check -
Does Here use OSM data?
I heard bing maps is moving to using OSM data for their map products.
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.
Time to move on, she ain’t the one. /s
You need a girlfriend you can recompile yourself from source!
>Developers when their girlfriend cheats on them (she’s now free and open source)
completely open source and shared with others
Contributed a very little. Been using it ina Top metro city for .ore than a year. Heavily reliable.
I use, and contribute to it, quite often.
In fact, just a few months ago I added the 90% missing houses and buildings from my city (of 200,000), which took about 60 hours 😂 Totally worth it.
Keep in mind that not only do OpenStreetMap users benefit from the maps, but so do users of countless other map providers and services that rely on OSM data. 👌
We use OSM quite a bit for various things at my job (transport logistics software). We’re generally concerned with UK cities, where the coverage is quite good, however we often find little things which aren’t quiiiite right and make a fix or two.
It’s a really cool project, overall
Yes. Most of my contributions are “drinking water” (public water fountains) and “restrooms”
I’ve been meaning to ask: what’s the appropriate POI for a normal 115/220 power outlet socket?
Is it a public socket where I could just plug in whatever any time as any person?
power=outlet and socket=<type>, although it’s not widely used (but don’t let that stop you!).
Sorry, but can you clairidy further? Those are tags. What should the POI amenity be?
It can just be a single node with
power=outlet, such as this one. Or combined with others (e.g. it looks like there are a few benches tagged as having power, and I guess a similar thing could be done for picnic shelters etc.). It depends on how micromappy you want to be I guess!
I have done more work on OpenSeaMap. It started with me being annoyed with plotters costing too much and ended in me using many hours to mark down rocks from satellite images.
It’s still pretty basic and there is no good way of collecting water depth info, but fun to improve it.
A couple of years ago, I had took the time to map in and around a small town close to me. I had mostly drawn building outlines that weren’t there and updated POI stuff with some road corrections here and there. It was nice seeing the gradual changes I did after each time updating the map information on Map.me knowing that I’m helping anyone that plans to go through the area to have accurate information on what’s around.
I’ve not contributed to the main one, but I have for the humanitarian osm team, you get recently disaster stricken areas and copy roads and buildings and the like
I use it a lot. I’m finding things like hiking trails are more up to date than Google maps
I’ve noticed there are nature trails missing so I would like to add those.
