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by ihatehn 1y ago
Very astute! Legally the code is owned by each contributor and licensed via the DCO. Financially the project is underneath the umbrella of the Platform 6 co-op (see OpenCollective) This is temporary though and a permanent nonprofit home is
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by ihatehn 1y ago
Hi biodranik! Hope you're well.
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by ihatehn 1y ago
Most of the activity is public, so look at the usernames of the fork leaders vs their activity on the upstream project... It's most of the recent top contributors who've been around for a long time and made their perspectives pret
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by ihatehn 1y ago
The good news is that the fork team is a majority of the top contributors outside of the owners, and the owners have been burnt out and embroiled in conflict for months, so I expect the experience to be roughly the same or better going forw
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by ihatehn 1y ago
FYI the OSM foundation will probably always be reluctant to sponsor or appear to prefer a certain end-user app. I don't know exactly why, but they really do see themselves as a vendor agnostic database, and don't want to make a po
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by ihatehn 1y ago
It also uses online tiles afaik.
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by ihatehn 1y ago
Go Map, or just make bookmarks in OsmAnd and go back later
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by ihatehn 2y ago
Sad to see Organic Maps "owners" trying to do the exact thing the community was worried they'd do: repeat a Maps.Me rug pull and possibly force everyone to migrate to yet another app! I hope they can either come to the negoti
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by ihatehn 2y ago
OSM can have those details it just takes a local community on top of keeping things updated. Even Google often relies on users for that stuff.
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by ihatehn 2y ago
Those might be called peaks or peak indicators: common in audio interfaces to indicate the maximal decibels in each frequency bucket over the last second or so, so that you don't miss seeing a split-second super loud sound.
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by ihatehn 3y ago
It's new, many people aren't aware.
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by ihatehn 3y ago
Also consider that with Google you have to redownload your area of the map almost constantly since they're online maps, whereas it's only even possible to download a ~100mb map file from OrganicMaps monthly-ish when they release a
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by ihatehn 3y ago
Are you searching for street addresses or business names? Coverage of those is highly dependent on openstreetmap volunteer contributions.
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by ihatehn 3y ago
I remember hearing about issues like this and I agree things are probably better lately after some fixes.
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by ihatehn 3y ago
If Google wants to have good updated user-contributed data for free, I hear there's a great open source map they can use ;)
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by ihatehn 3y ago
Apple and Google are not guaranteed to be updated when government road data changes. They do their best and they have tons of money and user-reported data (like live GPS traces from users' devices) to do decent work, but there are ma
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by ihatehn 3y ago
It highly depends on what you're doing (a road trip vs a grocery run vs hiking mountainous back country) but the first step is to do a sanity check of the route. It's very easy for many GPS apps to route people to the center of an
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by ihatehn 3y ago
One way I did this randomly the other day was choosing Bicycle or Walking mode which prioritize slow streets and pedestrian pathways. Maybe a different definition of thrilling than most people in cars, but I appreciate being taken into othe
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by ihatehn 3y ago
I think Komoot uses openstreetmap and is a little more hiking oriented, that might be useful to you.
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by ihatehn 3y ago
That's a good bug to report to OsmAnd. It used to be they announced a turn every time the road hit a slight angle too which was absolute insanity lol
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by ihatehn 3y ago
OsmAnd does more, but I recommend Organic Maps to my family and friends. Unless one of my friends is an avid hiker/biker or map nerd
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by ihatehn 3y ago
The main issue with OSM search at least in America is a lack of addresses. Anyone can help with this by importing addresses from the National Address Database: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/watmildon/diary&#x2
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by ihatehn 3y ago
Those people are the original founders who took it open source, which was a great move since otherwise it'd have become just another piece of shovelware getting enshittified into oblivion.
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by ihatehn 3y ago
I'm a volunteer working on an improvement to the spoken directions and I can say with firsthand experience that Organic Maps' development is not suspiciously fast. It is simply a fork of Maps.ME which has gone to crap, so when y
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by ihatehn 3y ago
I tell people OsmAnd is a swiss army knife that does everything for power users (the cyclists or hikers or drivers who find it really important to do a few specific things that most apps can't do) whereas Organic Maps is the app I actu
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by ihatehn 3y ago
A lot of the effusive praise is from people in Europe, who navigate slightly differently (often directions are based on intersection, etc) and have a lot longer OSM tradition. My guess is that you're American (or at least not European)
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by ihatehn 3y ago
Yeah the level of detail for things people care about is truly unmatched. I like mapping doggie bag dispensers, trash cans, and park benches -- stuff Google will just never care about.
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by ihatehn 3y ago
The bike profile in OSM routers will prioritize bike paths, bike lanes, and small streets over big highways, but there's always a balance since you're unlikely to want to bike 10 miles out of your way to avoid a busy street. That
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by ihatehn 3y ago
Recall that Google as a company doesn't care about making people's lives easier and better, they care about inserting themselves as a middleman in aspects of your daily life and then trying to sell ads about it. They might invent
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by ihatehn 3y ago
Problem is those companies are like Nest, who made good products with love and then sold themselves to Google who then turned most Nest products into bargain-basement offerings with half the features. So the only real fix is FOSS, since eve

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