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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just installed and signed into my OSM account! Been meaning to update more of my area.

I am looking to try moving away from Waze too. Are there any good open projects that have support for reporting cops and the other stuff like Waze? When I was looking last year, I came across Navmii since it does have some level of reporting stuff. However the app itself is very glitchy and I don't think it is really actively being worked on. Or is popular enough to even know if literally anyone around me is reporting things. When I have tried to report a cop being parked waiting for speeders, it doesn't show anything even on my map.

They use OSM data which I think is also not being actively scraped, as I personally added my entire street's addresses and doesn't show on Navmii (but does show up on the main OSM site and on Organic Maps).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you like to further improve your neighbourhood, check out https://streetcomplete.app/ Works well and is fun!

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[–] MigratingtoLemmy 10 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Can't we script a complete copy of Google maps data (shops, highways etc) to this? Is the API restricted? Can we run distributed jobs for it? I can spin up some compute if someone is interested in trying this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah they restricted the API a while back.

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[–] MissyBee 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I tried this for my hiking trip and it is really good for that. But when i tried to use it as a navigation tool with my motorcycle it lagged pretty much all the time and couldn't keep up with my position and speed. I tried to change permissions for the app, but so far nothing worked.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

That's a shame. I just want to say that this issue is definitely not universal as I use it for navigation while driving and it works very well for me, and I've heard the same from others too. I'm not sure why it isn't working as well for you.

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[–] Carighan 10 points 2 months ago

It's... okay?

In fact no, it's by-far the best Google Maps alternative I've used so far, this clears OsmAnd+ easily. However, it still has quite a way to go. I can see why it's awesome for hiking, but this has some interesting side effects.

For example, I noticed right away that it cannot search for specific places in non-downloaded maps. This might seem like a "duh", but the maps around here seem extremely fine-grained, so I need to first search for the town, then download the map, then search for the street and address, then I can navigate. Oh no wait I cannot, I need to also download maps for all places in-between.

This makes complete sense for hiking, where I'm confined to a - comparatively - small area and want to pre-download this, at all times, always. And also don't really "search" for a specific address to route to beforehand, rather for a general area and then just get the map.

And of course, the quality of navigation is... adventurous. But I expected that, that's just something GMaps has a huge starting advantage at, and this clears what OsmAnd+ does and honestly feels better than Apple Maps, too. Though that's maybe not high praise, as in this area of the world Apple Maps is like getting lost only you use a smartphoen to do it.
Still, it's the second best I've seen. And for an open source app, that's an insane feat.

Hugely impressed, TY OP. Never heard of this before.

[–] ozoned 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Might I recommend Magic Earth?

Organic maps is great, but the search is really finnicky.

Magic Earth has amazing UI, search, it can acts as a dashcam as you travel and that video can pinpoint your place on the map. I'm loving it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ozoned 5 points 2 months ago

Dang it! Didn't even think to check ... Boo! Organic Maps it is!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (9 children)

It's only a matter of time until Google Maps will enshittify, too.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

https://omaps.app/test.html

This page lists all links that OM is supposed to open, including GM.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

oh this is amazing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

i hope the author makes it available on whatever store harmony os has

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Google is such a great source of inspiration (^_^)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Absolutely love organic maps for cycling! It recommendeds sensible routes that are much safer. The only feature I miss (and I know organic maps strives for 100% feature completeness even offline so this would be unlikely to be added) is navigation using public transit in the UK. The national rail app is painfully slow and isn't easy to just search a location and just go, but it does work. Every bus company has their own app too... I haven't found a good replacement yet unfortunately :/

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