Missing addresses and places (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by rb411@lemmy.world to c/CoMaps@sopuli.xyz

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For context I switched to Magic Earth a while back as it was the best Google Maps alternative to me, however with the recent switch to a Freemium model that also introduced a ton of bugs, I'm looking for other alternatives.

One thing I noticed immediately about comaps is its misssing a LOT of addresses and places here in the US that were available on Magic Earth. Can I somehow manually import better address/maps data? It's to the point it's really not usable for me but I'm struggling to find anything else that works nearly as good as Magic Earth.

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[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

I don't know, I'm not a developer. Looking at some of those databases, some of them are obviously open and others are paid licenses that the community probably can't afford.

[-] rb411@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Looks like they use both Open Addresses and NAD, a government-provided address database. Both appear free to download, but I don't know how easily it could be actually integrated into an app as I'm assuming that would require some time of API or something. I am also not a developer, just trying to figure out the best solution for navigation without giving all my data to Google. I did notice there's a "Custom Map Server" option in CoMaps settings, so maybe I could manually add something there? Not sure how that works though and maybe that overrides the default database instead of adding to it.

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