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That might be down to data i.e. OSM being crappy in your area or the app being bad... Hard to tell, it worked for me back when the app was with its original dev
by pastage 6y ago
That might be down to data i.e. OSM being crappy in your area or the app being bad... Hard to tell, it worked for me back when the app was with its original developer. So maybe browse around on osm.org in the same area to see if you have data in your area.
- TulliusCicero 6y agoI live in a major European city (Munich), so the data being that bad would strike me as a sort of indictment. Based on how people talk, I thought big European cities would be one of the strongest types of areas. I tried out your idea -- I went to the official site, openstreetmap.org, zoomed in onto my neighborhood, and then searched for "Chinese restaurant" in the search. It returned a result for a place apparently literally named "Chinese Restaurant" in Portland, OR. That doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.
- pastage 6y agoI love OSM but what you say is correct, search is hard, or rather no one cares about the search part of OSM. That is why you need to browse around on the map to judge data quality, and even then you might nor see all that is there. The data is usually there if you live in europe, it's just hard to search. There are two related things that make it hard, bad tagging of the data and the extreme diversity of data. E.g. this winter I've used osmand to find fire pits, it was a great way to use the data but there seems to lots of ways to tag firepits so a search might not find all of them.
- matkoniecz 6y agoNot sure why TulliusCicero is downvoted. POI quality is the worst part of OSM, Nominatim has quite weak search and POI Nominatim search is hilariously bad.