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I use this app regularly and it doesn’t work in the US either. But I love the offline map feature. I just avoid searching for anything.
by jinushaun 3y ago
I use this app regularly and it doesn’t work in the US either. But I love the offline map feature. I just avoid searching for anything.
- gregoriol 3y agoSearching is hard: OpenStreetMaps' Nominatim is not very good, but some products built around it like Mapbox's search is very good. Don't know what they add exactly, but there is a big gap.
- mtmail 3y agoMapbox is a big company. They can run their geocoder ("Carmen", at least during the time it was open source) with 10x hardware requirements, have a full-time team of engineers and testers, and they add commercial licensed (paid) data sources. For Germany for example they use official government data, not OpenStreetMap or other open data.
- Doctor_Fegg 3y agoNominatim is very good. It's just tightly scoped (it doesn't claim to offer anything but rudimentary POI search, it's just focused on placenames), and limited by OSM data which doesn't have house-level addressing for most of the world.