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That's not a knock against the app, but something you can actually fix - this would use the OSM backend, and adding your parent's address would take all of ten
by xethos 3y ago
That's not a knock against the app, but something you can actually fix - this would use the OSM backend, and adding your parent's address would take all of ten minutes if you care to do so.
- wombat-man 3y agoSure, but if it's to be usable as a replacement for other map apps, that's time that'll add up pretty quickly. It's a nice proof of concept but there's a long ways to go.
- emj 3y agoYou are missing the point. If you do this commercially and have that need, you usually have a separate geocoding. This data can not be combined with OSM unless it is already freely available. The point is that the data in OSM is freely useable in what ever way you want to as long as you publish the data used to create your maps. There are no available map data that allow this except Openstreetmap.
- mastazi 3y agoThis app's search is clearly not the same as the one on openstreetmap.org On openstreetmap.org I found my address with no issues - I typed the address in the search box, and got a pointer on the map showing me where it is. On OsmApp, the same exact query resulted in more than 19,000 results and the app proceeded to highlight them all on the map, which effectively means it's impossible to actually locate the address.