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Totally useless for me, unfortunately. I'm in a new town and a new country and the lack of information on it compared to either Google or Apple makes it something I have no reason to use.
I hope it gets better so I can switch. I really don't have a choice right now if I want to get around and just do basic things like find out what shops are open.
Register an OSM account and be the change you want to see in your local map!
How can I be the change I want to see when I don't have the information I need in the first place?
I don’t mean that you need to enter info there that you don’t have. But - you found a new shop? Cool. Enter it in OSM. Or checking it’s correctly in OSM. Or append their opening hours to the data set or…
For some easy edits, there’s e.g. the android(?) app StreetComplete which will show „quests“ on OSM in your area to complete datasets. Like „is this street lit?“ „what surface does this road have?“, „are there board walks?“, „what’s this house number here?“, „what’s name of this street?“ and so on.
You can do such things on an afternoon stroll in your area and it will help you learn your surroundings and discover things.
I'm in the us and it doesn't even recognize street names on my city. Labeling buisnesses doesn't matter.
Bro, you have 3600 posts and almost 30.000 comments in 1.5 years on this platform, I see you in almost any instance and in countless communities.
Please, take an afternoon stroll.
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He’s also an active mod in a few
And it takes me seconds to make them in between searching for the jobs I've only been searching for in the last three weeks.
But sure, count the entire 1.5 years.
Amazing how people just assume because you can take 30 seconds of time every so often to look at Lemmy, you have all the time in the world. What the fuck else am I supposed to do when I'm taking breaks, stick my finger in my ass?
You don't have to explain yourself, I was just poking fun at the discrepancy of "no time for a stroll" and a rather prolific online activity, because a stroll in my definition is also not super time consuming.
Sorry if I was overstepping or being insulting there, that wasn't my intention. Just wanted to make some fun of it. I usually appreciate a lot of your input and posts.
Ok, sorry. A couple of other people are legitimately giving me shit for it as if I'm not allowed to take breaks, so I was already a bit flustered.
I feel you, I had that happen once or twice myself. Reading back I understand how you got there, I phrased it rather aggressively .
If 'every so often' is 30s every 60s youd be right.
I only fill things in for places I've been or am already familiar with.
You can also check websites for places. You can get the site from Google Maps, of a web search, and start to fill things in you see missing.
Yeah I tried to get past bad naming but it's just very annoying to have all the places in your town named as if they are in the next town over the river in a different province !