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What is the advantage of using Gnome Maps over just OpenStreetMap.org? From their website[1], it seems like it's still just a client for the various services
by fovc 9y ago
What is the advantage of using Gnome Maps over just OpenStreetMap.org? From their website[1], it seems like it's still just a client for the various services
- korginator 9y agoIt's just another option, it's about choice. You could very well use maps.me as I do on Android, or any of the other solutions.
- upofadown 9y agoAppears to be integrated route planning and satellite view.
- bebop 9y agoThe OpenStreetMap.org application is only supposed to be used for editing OSM data. It is not supposed to be used as a gmaps alternative. For that you should take the Planet OSM data and create a map service (WMS or similar) yourself.
- maxerickson 9y agoThe development of the website is definitely focused on helping mappers. It's fine for individuals to use it for whatever though.
- bebop 9y agoI guess it depends on how you define "heavy use". According to their policy, you should not distribute any application that uses their tile server. https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/ https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/
- maxerickson 9y agoSure. The OP is talking about individuals directly using the website as a map though. (I've added "for individuals" to my first comment)
- rmc 9y agoEh not really. The OSM community hasn't really settled on what OSM.org is supposed to do. It's very definitely made for regular end users in mind. So you can use it for that.
- everybodyknows 9y agoGnome Maps can respond to user pan/zoom much faster. G-Maps is hooked in to MapBox's commercial-scale map tile service, which in turn delegates the bulk work to servers run by cloudfront.net. Run tcpdump to see this.
- progval 9y agoGnome Maps is a lot faster than the website.