Organic Maps (Unofficial)

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Organic Maps is a free open-source Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists based on top of crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and curated with love by MapsWithMe (Maps.Me) founders back from 2021.

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Organic Maps is where it's at! (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I also encourage everyone to start updating their local areas with businesses and poi's to help OSM grow. I do it and it's super fun. :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just recently put in a Note for a fix in my local area (not a business, but an incorrectly placed toll road), but looking around the area I see a bunch of other Notes that are months old that don't seem to have been actioned. So I don't have a lot of hope that my feedback will be fixed any time soon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It's always better to fix yourself if you can. Anonymous notes are not always looked at unless you've really put a good explanation. If you just wrote "wrong toll booth location" it's probably not going to be fixed indeed. You can share your notes link here if you want and maybe somebody will fix it seeing it here. If you don't have an account then contributors can't ask follow up questions either...

Edit: just saw you linked it and it was resolved sorry

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

It’s always better to fix yourself if you can

Like I said elsewhere, I've so far not gotten value out of Organic Maps, and the burden to create an account and learn how to contribute something fairly complicated like this is higher than I'm willing to go to to contribute back to a service that hasn't even provided me value.

Anonymous notes are not always looked at unless you’ve really put a good explanation

I'd like to think my note had a pretty good explanation. It was fairly specific about the issue and what the resolution should be. As you've seen, it did get fixed, thanks to @[email protected]. But getting bespoke help by finding it on Lemmy is not exactly ideal, and considering all those other unresolved notes still haven't been resolved, I don't have much hope that my note would have been resolved either, had I not linked it in here. That's...not great, and doesn't encourage contributors to help out more.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'd encourage use of StreetComplete, you can walk around your local area and get lots of points to survey with data on street widths or businesses' opening times. Imagine if all the people who were busy with Pokemon Go used that, OpenStreetMap would be nigh perfect in terms of data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Amusingly, it's widely believed that improving location information is a big part of the reason Niantic (at the time a subsidiary of Google) created Ingress (their game before Pokemon Go—and a much better-designed game, IMO) in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are there any iOS equivalents to StreetComplete?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

there is Every Door on iOS, as well as MapComplete and MapContrib which are websites so they should work on iOS

idk if any of these are as good as StreetComplete tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you have a dashcam, you can also upload streetview footage with KartaView too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Or Panoramax