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> I’ve been preoccupied with some other data that neither Open Maps nor Google provides. As an avid OpenStreetMapper I honestly wonder what kind of data is missing in OpenStreetMap. Is that something sighted persons cannot grasp and thus not add to OSM? Have you seen https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_for_the_blind ? Is something missing there? > I also have to think about whether to go open or closed source bef…
>As an avid OpenStreetMapper I honestly wonder what kind of data is missing in OpenStreetMap. Is that something sighted persons cannot grasp and thus not add to OSM? Have you seen. Thank you for providing that link — it was helpful. The information I want to display is text-based rather than graphic-based. My plan is to have two systems working in tandem: physical hardware placed in areas of interest like bus stops,…
That might be a bit more costly than calling any API :) And launching own GPS satellites has no connection with Google's API as far as I know.
Are you interested in location data only? Then you can actually query https://nominatim.org/, which does the (reverese) geocoding.
> the map will be text-only to ensure accessibility.
I wonder how that's done, something like https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapscii ?