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Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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As a consumer, I was just looking for mobile apps. I couldn't find any on this page. Are there any?

Maps.me is a good alternative to Osmand. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mapswithme...

It's the other way around :) osmand is a good alternative for maps.me because maps.me doesn't care about your privacy and has 20 privacy tracker dependencies installed(check out the exodus privacy app). osmand has zero

Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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have you tried OsmAnd https://osmand.net/ ? I'm using it for years, travelling around the world when i need to have offline maps with me and it works good most of the time. I'm not saying it's the best and the fastest map, but it helped me tons of time to find an A-> B route - being a pedestrian, a cyclist or travelling by a public transport

The biggest drawback for me (coming from someone who exclusively uses OsmAnd for nav) is the lack of geocoding. I can't just type in an address and get a reliable destination pin to navigate to, instead I have to paste the address into a website that will convert it to lat/long first and then use that to drop the pin. That's the main issue that prevents me from recommending OsmAnd to people like my wife who are happy…

OsmAnd does provide geocoding, but perhaps the address data has been lacking in the areas where you tried it?

Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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Maps.me is what finally has allowed me to mostly switch with offline maps, good routing, and support for all modes of transit I use consistently. https://maps.me/

Unfortunately it looks like they may share your data with third parties, which includes their parent company, mail.ru. I personally don’t trust them.

There's an open source version of Maps.me with no tracking on Fdroid for those on Android. It's called "Maps" https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.maps/

Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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have you tried OsmAnd https://osmand.net/ ? I'm using it for years, travelling around the world when i need to have offline maps with me and it works good most of the time. I'm not saying it's the best and the fastest map, but it helped me tons of time to find an A-> B route - being a pedestrian, a cyclist or travelling by a public transport

The biggest drawback for me (coming from someone who exclusively uses OsmAnd for nav) is the lack of geocoding. I can't just type in an address and get a reliable destination pin to navigate to, instead I have to paste the address into a website that will convert it to lat/long first and then use that to drop the pin. That's the main issue that prevents me from recommending OsmAnd to people like my wife who are happy…

Geocoding works perfectly fine for me, especially for simple addresses. Where did you use it?

Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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Tangentially, I’ve been trying to get my company on the list of providers for upwards of 6 months to a year, and my MR and Issue in GitHub have not had any movement. Anyone here know someone who could help resolve that? We pretty clearly fit the guidelines for inclusion.

The github-hosted site has only just gone live and the issue backlog hasn't been addressed yet. It'll be looked at in due course I'm sure. (Have to admit I wouldn't have chosen to submit s2o to HN until stuff's been ironed out, but there you go!)

Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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Ok.. i want to serve tiles... ok, I go here: https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/ First option (Build a tile server using packages) ... i click on it.. ubuntu packages... i don't have ubuntu here, let's go back. Second option (Build a tile server from source), takes me here: https://switch2osm.org/?page_id=76 ... where is the documentation? How do i build it from source? Ok fsck it, let's try the "all in one solutio…

Looks like the "Second option" link should point here: https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/manually-building-a-til...

The "all in one solution" link used to point to TileMill, which is no longer maintained: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TileMill

Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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I've tried over and over again to switch to OSM but everytime I've reverted back to Google Maps and Citymapper. I've even contributed to OSM to fix bits I'm around but it's hard. I don't drive so I rely heavily on public transport, and so for me that's the biggest selling point for any such tool. Unfortunately I've yet to find an OSM app that can do this in a useful manner as Citmapper and Google do. Unfortunately th…

Maps.me is what finally has allowed me to mostly switch with offline maps, good routing, and support for all modes of transit I use consistently. https://maps.me/

Since there seems to be some skepticism about them, I want to recommend this app, that my partner uses and likes, and that claims to be based on maps.me while having removed all advertising and binaries.

https://f-droid.org/de/packages/com.github.axet.maps/

Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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A few years ago I did make my own tiles for Paris from OSM; it's pretty exciting to be able to design everything. But it's a lot of work that has to be redone constantly to keep up with map changes... Not realistic for a small organization (or an individual!) unfortunately.

yeah, I've worked on something similar some time ago for a small business, the recourses we put in that was not worth it as we had to redo the thing quite soon.

Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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Ok.. i want to serve tiles... ok, I go here: https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/ First option (Build a tile server using packages) ... i click on it.. ubuntu packages... i don't have ubuntu here, let's go back. Second option (Build a tile server from source), takes me here: https://switch2osm.org/?page_id=76 ... where is the documentation? How do i build it from source? Ok fsck it, let's try the "all in one solutio…

Good feedback, but FWIW I do believe that a docker container with Ubuntu is a no brainer. Sure policies might forbid it.

Re: Switch to OpenStreetMap

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Has bug-correcting editing improved over the years? We use OSM quite a bit in the public sector because they aren’t snooping. Three years ago one of our internal routing systems broke because someone had reported the street leading up to our administration center as a one-way street in the wrong direction. This meant our 7000 employees couldn’t get compensation for any work related driving, and we couldn’t submit the…

Puzzled by this. It's really really unlikely that you got a ban for one editing error. You can see the list of blocks at https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks and actual bans are only imposed for _repeated_ vandalism, edit-warring or copyright infringement. Short-term user blocks are generally imposed if the user isn't responding to attempts to contact them.

Do you have a link for your changeset and what happened?

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