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OSM is supreme when it comes to paths, trails and other such details (like wind shelters). Google Maps seems to be devoid of these.
Absolutely, I use OSM all the time for walking paths and mountain bike trails because the coverage of them is perfect. Google maps seems to fall short where there isn't a lot of money to be made.
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I found one phone box where the instructions on how to call emergency services were only in Welsh, it was in a major tourist area too.
112 works in all of the EU, many other countries, and on all GSM phones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/112_(emergency_telephone_numbe...
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There's quite some resistance to adding translations and transcriptions, as they aren't really names as such. An example would be small towns in the US. They probably don't have a Welsh name, even if there happens to be a direct translation into Welsh.
Then dont add a translation for a small town and you have 0 problems.
Surprisingly, even discounting this, the crowdsourced POIs are quite accurate.)
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I don't really understand the approach to names which takes them and translates them: Pen-Y-Bont and Bridge-end are translations, but the name is one or the other. Transliteration seems fine to me, Caerdydd Cardiff, but we shouldn't say it's "name" in English is Diffcastle (or perhaps Taffcastle if you take an etymological approach). /rant
What do you call Germany? Germany, or Deutschland? Why is the one you use more correct than the other?
In other words, both are correct. Choosing the one that's appropriate in a specific context...is a tricky problem.
OSM is supreme when it comes to paths, trails and other such details (like wind shelters). Google Maps seems to be devoid of these.
I just recently spent a few hours working with OSM and Nominatim as part of a project for my university, an event planning page for ActivityPub social media: http://fedevent.herokuapp.com/ OSM maps are quite detailed, perfectly serviceable...but Nominatim is not very good (at least in my experience?) I used https://github.com/perliedman/leaflet-control-geocoder to interact with Nominatim but entering something that c…
Did you have a look at overpass turbo[1]? With this API a lot more is possible than with nominatim. [1] http://overpass-turbo.eu/
I always wondered who actually pays for the bills in OSM? Who pays all the servers, all the traffic, etc...?
With OSM you have to host the map tiles yourself if you add maps to your website, because OSM servers only provide limited traffic hosting via the API.
I always wondered who actually pays for the bills in OSM? Who pays all the servers, all the traffic, etc...?
The main OSM org doesn't actually host any of the servers that end users use. They host a website for editors to contribute and publish data dumps. Devs providing access to OSM download the data dumps and host it on their own servers.
I totally support OSM 1000%... But frankly, it seems it's still a lot of work to build OSM into your own website/app, setting up your own tile server. I know there are instructions for this [1] [2] -- but to really get popular, it seems like there really ought to be up-to-date, auto-updating, officially recommended and totally secure server images on Digital Ocean, AWS, Google Cloud and Azure where anyone can spin it…
It is a one-liner:
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We can’t really use google maps in the Danish public sector where I work, because they track your data. So we use osm and I think you’re daily spot on. I work in a small municipality so we don’t really have the resources to do the integration ourselves. What we did was find a company which specializes in making google maps like APIs/integration to osm as well as having a support line that can correct osm mistakes for…
> We can’t really use google maps in the Danish public sector where I work, because they track your data. Perfect example of stifling regulations hurting the average person.