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I have two use cases for maps. Navigation and POI discovery. OsmAnd is complete fail for the second part. Maps.Me has some reviews but it's meager compared to

I have two use cases for maps. Navigation and POI discovery. OsmAnd is complete fail for the second part. Maps.Me has some reviews but it's meager compared to Google Maps ofc. I have over a hundred reviews on Google maps that I wrote. I can grab them using Google Takeout and since they're my IP (I'm in Germany) I would happily import them as reviews for the resp. POIs in OsmAnd (or Maps.Me). I.e. use them to contribute to OSM. But how? This should be dead simple.

richiebful1 4y ago
Open Street Maps doesn't aggregate review data, only business info. That said, OSM doesn't really encourage automated changes for understandable reasons (vandalism, interest in human validation, etc). It's a tradeoff that makes OSM a lot better in my rural area, but maybe not in an urban area with a lot of business turnover
- virtualritz 4y ago
  Yeah, talk about a chicken-egg problem. If you want people to use OSM-based apps in place of Google/Apple maps you need to provide a way to access/add/edit (and better also import) POI reviews. W/o them average users will not switch because offline navigation via OSM is simply not good enough a reason. Particuarly if you have commercial (but free) stuff like HERE WeGo which does offline navigation better than any OSM-based app I've seen.
eisa01 4y ago
Agree, would be great with some kind of open POI service synced to OSM, and with reviews tacked on FYI: You may want to check out Organic Maps, that is developed by the original Maps.me founders: https://organicmaps.app https://organicmaps.app
zczc 4y ago
There is Open Place Reviews: https://openplacereviews.org/ https://openplacereviews.org/. Also available as a plugin in OsmAnd: https://osmand.net/docs/user/plugins/openplacereviews https://osmand.net/docs/user/plugins/openplacereviews
- virtualritz 4y ago
  I saw 'Blockchain' on the top of that page and I closed the tab immediately. Why does a review aggregator need a blockchain? Also there is no way to import a review.json exported from Google Map via Takeout unless I'm blind.
  - spelledwrong 4y ago
    Non-blockchain open review aggregator:https://mangrove.reviews/ https://mangrove.reviews/ still no import though.

richiebful1 4y ago

Open Street Maps doesn't aggregate review data, only business info. That said, OSM doesn't really encourage automated changes for understandable reasons (vandalism, interest in human validation, etc). It's a tradeoff that makes OSM a lot better in my rural area, but maybe not in an urban area with a lot of business turnover

virtualritz 4y ago
Yeah, talk about a chicken-egg problem. If you want people to use OSM-based apps in place of Google/Apple maps you need to provide a way to access/add/edit (and better also import) POI reviews. W/o them average users will not switch because offline navigation via OSM is simply not good enough a reason. Particuarly if you have commercial (but free) stuff like HERE WeGo which does offline navigation better than any OSM-based app I've seen.

eisa01 4y ago

Agree, would be great with some kind of open POI service synced to OSM, and with reviews tacked on FYI: You may want to check out Organic Maps, that is developed by the original Maps.me founders: https://organicmaps.app https://organicmaps.app

zczc 4y ago

There is Open Place Reviews: https://openplacereviews.org/ https://openplacereviews.org/. Also available as a plugin in OsmAnd: https://osmand.net/docs/user/plugins/openplacereviews https://osmand.net/docs/user/plugins/openplacereviews

virtualritz 4y ago
I saw 'Blockchain' on the top of that page and I closed the tab immediately. Why does a review aggregator need a blockchain? Also there is no way to import a review.json exported from Google Map via Takeout unless I'm blind.
- spelledwrong 4y ago
  Non-blockchain open review aggregator:https://mangrove.reviews/ https://mangrove.reviews/ still no import though.