Question about an Android app (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just got a new(ish) phone and am reinstalling all of the apps that I used to have on my old phone, and I remember that there was an app out there where I could type in an address, and then it would auto-open OSM by passing in the geo-coordinates. I cannot find this app again for the life of me. Does anyone have any idea where I can find this?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I don't know enough about the why but I think it comes down to licensing incompatibility but it sure would be nice if someone who knows how this shit works could get the publicly available Canadian address data into OSM at minimum.

I'm in the same boat where a solid 90% of the time I search for a street address its not in OSM regardless of which Canadian city I'm in. Sometimes its able to find a block number on a street but not the individual address so atleast that gets me on the right side of town most of the time 🤦‍♂️

Business name searching seems to have improved for me a few updates ago and it atleast finds business names that have already been added by someone most of the time as it should. Sometimes it shows a business name on the map but it doesn't find it and I can't click on it to select it.

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

@paperBark

Looks like half of them have incompatible licenses and can't be imported:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada#Open_Data

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