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.

  • fmstrat
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    452 years ago

    OSM is huge for backcountry. Hiking trails, skiing, etc. There is nothing better.

  • troybot
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    12 years ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    I contribute regularly. I used to waste a lot of time watching TV series, instead now I contribute to OSM.

  • @[email protected]
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    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

  • @[email protected]
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    Contributed a very little. Been using it ina Top metro city for .ore than a year. Heavily reliable.

  • @[email protected]
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    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. 👌

  • @[email protected]
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    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

  • @[email protected]
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    132 years ago

    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?

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        Sorry, but can you clairidy further? Those are tags. What should the POI amenity be?

        • @[email protected]
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          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!

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

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    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    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