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

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You cannot copy anything from Google Maps. You seed to source data either from public sources or colle~~l~~ct it first-hand.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

It's kind of like Wikipedia, you have to cite the original source (State or council maps) rather than a 3rd party source.

The map data for my suburb is all kinds of wrong on Google Maps, there's a park around the corner from me which is marked as a house for starters, blindly copying that into OSM would be a disservice.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Not necessarily original source - you can use aerial imagery from Bing, for example.

The actual requirement is actually a legal one. The data must be public domain or otherwise compatible with their license.

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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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