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I installed this app and it seems fairly gross. Is it really just for driving through places and not stopping? Because it seems to have close to zero points o

I installed this app and it seems fairly gross. Is it really just for driving through places and not stopping? Because it seems to have close to zero points of interest. In my town it is incapable of finding any restaurant or other eatery which is not part of a huge national chain like McDonalds.

sirdogealot 12y ago
How many people live in your town? I suspect that points of interest would be fully up to date in places like New York City, but lacking in smaller towns and villages for obvious reasons.
dingaling 12y ago
> Because it seems to have close to zero points of interest. 1. Go to osm.org 2. Create an account 3. Add the PoIs 4. Save changes
- jlarocco 12y ago
  That's all well and good for people who enjoy doing that. But I'm not interested, and I suspect a lot of other people aren't interested. And you can turn it around and say, "Well then it's your own fault OSM isn't better," but the fact of the matter is, I don't care, and I'll just use Google Maps, or Apple's maps, or some other map that has the info. I like OSM, and I think it's neat, but trying to guilt people into helping out is going to turn away more people than it's going to bring in.
  - fuck_google 12y ago
    Why should OSM even try to attract users that don't bring in any value by contributing?
    - maxerickson 12y ago
      OSM shouldn't worry too much about those users. If Telenav is attracting them, getting them to pay money and using some of that money to improve OSM, the community probably shouldn't be too hostile to honest evaluations from those people.
- thrownaway2424 12y ago
  This app costs a $25 subscription so I'm not inclined to also contribute my time.
- pekk 12y ago
  Now all we need is for millions and millions more people to do this, and then we have a bunch of data which is just as likely to be inaccurate as if we had actually tried to automate any of the process rather than continually demanding unfeasibly huge amounts of free labor.

sirdogealot 12y ago

How many people live in your town? I suspect that points of interest would be fully up to date in places like New York City, but lacking in smaller towns and villages for obvious reasons.

dingaling 12y ago

> Because it seems to have close to zero points of interest. 1. Go to osm.org 2. Create an account 3. Add the PoIs 4. Save changes

jlarocco 12y ago
That's all well and good for people who enjoy doing that. But I'm not interested, and I suspect a lot of other people aren't interested. And you can turn it around and say, "Well then it's your own fault OSM isn't better," but the fact of the matter is, I don't care, and I'll just use Google Maps, or Apple's maps, or some other map that has the info. I like OSM, and I think it's neat, but trying to guilt people into helping out is going to turn away more people than it's going to bring in.
- fuck_google 12y ago
  Why should OSM even try to attract users that don't bring in any value by contributing?
  - maxerickson 12y ago
    OSM shouldn't worry too much about those users. If Telenav is attracting them, getting them to pay money and using some of that money to improve OSM, the community probably shouldn't be too hostile to honest evaluations from those people.
thrownaway2424 12y ago
This app costs a $25 subscription so I'm not inclined to also contribute my time.
pekk 12y ago
Now all we need is for millions and millions more people to do this, and then we have a bunch of data which is just as likely to be inaccurate as if we had actually tried to automate any of the process rather than continually demanding unfeasibly huge amounts of free labor.