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What's the advantage compared to using https://www.openstreetmap.org/ https://www.openstreetmap.org/ and Organic Maps, or self-hosting them? (the website is htt

by devit 4y ago

What's the advantage compared to using https://www.openstreetmap.org/ https://www.openstreetmap.org/ and Organic Maps, or self-hosting them? (the website is https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website and the tile server is https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/ https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/)

ellenhp 4y ago
Mostly just that you can self-host this stack and keep your location information private (the way it should be). If you're fine sharing your current and future whereabouts with people then there's no need to self-host so you're free to pick whatever service is the nicest to use. For most people that's going to be Google or Apple maps, but there's definitely a niche for a project like this. Compared to self-hosting an existing project, it is much easier to bring up a new Headway instance: `make Seattle.up` will bring up a new instance on 8080.
- zaik 4y ago
  OrganicMaps and OsmAnd operate entirely on local map data and don't send your information to remote servers.
  - ellenhp 4y ago
    Didn't realize that about Organic Maps. It also appears to be open-source which is cool. Is its geocoder any good? Search in OsmAnd is painfully slow and not tolerant of typos at all. Headway uses photon as a geocoder autocompletion system which is incredible and makes the experience miles better than I've ever had with OsmAnd. I love the idea of offline maps but I've never used an offline maps app with a decent search experience. I also aim to make Headway very transit focused which will allow it to serve real-time data about transit vehicle locations from GTFS realtime feeds. edit: I just tried out organic maps and it is GOOD. Way better than OsmAnd. I still want to keep working on Headway but this will be useful in the meantime.

by devit 4y ago

ellenhp 4y ago

Mostly just that you can self-host this stack and keep your location information private (the way it should be). If you're fine sharing your current and future whereabouts with people then there's no need to self-host so you're free to pick whatever service is the nicest to use. For most people that's going to be Google or Apple maps, but there's definitely a niche for a project like this. Compared to self-hosting an existing project, it is much easier to bring up a new Headway instance: `make Seattle.up` will bring up a new instance on 8080.

zaik 4y ago
OrganicMaps and OsmAnd operate entirely on local map data and don't send your information to remote servers.
- ellenhp 4y ago
  Didn't realize that about Organic Maps. It also appears to be open-source which is cool. Is its geocoder any good? Search in OsmAnd is painfully slow and not tolerant of typos at all. Headway uses photon as a geocoder autocompletion system which is incredible and makes the experience miles better than I've ever had with OsmAnd. I love the idea of offline maps but I've never used an offline maps app with a decent search experience. I also aim to make Headway very transit focused which will allow it to serve real-time data about transit vehicle locations from GTFS realtime feeds. edit: I just tried out organic maps and it is GOOD. Way better than OsmAnd. I still want to keep working on Headway but this will be useful in the meantime.