How come Magic Earth has more addresses, if both use Open street map? (lemmy.today)

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I've been messing around with Magic Earth and Organic Maps recently.

I immediately noticed that when I type a home address in Magic Earth, the app can take me to the exact house on the block.

However, when I type the same home address in Organic Maps, the app can only take me to the street where the house is. It can find the exact house.

Why is this the case? I thought both Magic Earth and Organic Maps used the same map data behind the scenes...

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That doesnt really answer the question, as how could MagicLane find an address, it's just an engine, it shouldn't have any extra map data.

On the third party licenses a lot transit sources are displayed, but I cant find any address related source.

If the address is coming from osm, it may be not mapped manually, but only as part of an addr:interpolation line. Organic maps supports finding addresses in such lines, but it doesn't interpolate the position of the point, while Magic earth does.

Another option is they started to add overture address data, but forgot to mention on the licenses page? Overture has 400 million addresses released with an osm compatible license: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/addresses/

@[email protected] can you find the address on https://osm.org/ ? You could figure out fromthat if it's coming from osm or from another source

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks for clarification. I assumed they have their own DB of POIs but they mention somewhere that their data comes from the OSM contributors.

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