Blaze@lemm.ee to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 9 days agoApple Maps steps out of its walled garden and onto Androidwww.androidpolice.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down17
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minus-squareOmega@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 days agoorganic maps is solid but needs traction, adding stuff to OSM by yourself is a bit difficult
minus-squareoxf@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·8 days agoIf you find contributing to OSM a chore, you might wanna look into “StreetComplete”. They have managed to “gamify” contributing to the database. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/ It’s also available on PlayStore.
minus-squareRvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 days agoOn the flip side, living in a place Google doesn’t index properly, I’ve found adding stuff to OSM to be infinitely easier than adding/correcting things on Google Maps. Google just has the advantage of already having 99% of stuff on it
minus-squareOmega@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoYeah, adding stuff to Google is actually a worse experience than OSM, haha
minus-squaredrwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoyeah the main issue is a lot of times if you know where stuff is, you don’t need to use it. so its a bit less then convenient. I wish there were tools that when you searched a place you could import into oom, but then, that would be a violation.
organic maps is solid but needs traction, adding stuff to OSM by yourself is a bit difficult
If you find contributing to OSM a chore, you might wanna look into “StreetComplete”. They have managed to “gamify” contributing to the database.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/
It’s also available on PlayStore.
On the flip side, living in a place Google doesn’t index properly, I’ve found adding stuff to OSM to be infinitely easier than adding/correcting things on Google Maps. Google just has the advantage of already having 99% of stuff on it
Yeah, adding stuff to Google is actually a worse experience than OSM, haha
yeah the main issue is a lot of times if you know where stuff is, you don’t need to use it. so its a bit less then convenient.
I wish there were tools that when you searched a place you could import into oom, but then, that would be a violation.