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OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

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Re: OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

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Post by blendergeek »

tppiotrowski wrote: post #100
radicaldreamer wrote: post #70

What is the best-in-class iOS app using OpenStreetMap? For iPhone, MagicEarth looks extremely good ( https://www.magicearth.com/ ), but I'm wondering if people have other recommendations...

I have been using maps.me for about 5 years. It is becoming more and more commercialized but it's fast and has a simple interface.

Maps.me was recently purchased by a weird payments company and replaced with a generic reference MapBox OSM app.

This might have been reverted later but it was big on HN a few weeks ago.

Re: OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

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Post by Vinnl »

Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #12

On the other hand, I wonder if OSM's accuracy in Europe has taken a hit in the last year. The lockdowns have led to a wave of bankruptcies of restaurants and fitness centers in several countries, but because mappers are forced to stay home and aren't circulating in the city doing their business, they aren't noticing so much what has changed and removing those POIs from the map. Also, the extremely strict lockdowns in…

Interestingly with almost nothing to do but walks around the city, Covid is the first time I started actively contributing to OSM. Although StreetComplete [1] definitely helped there, albeit just as a gateway for actually updated POIs, which still required the web interface.

[1] https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete/

Re: OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

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Post by blendergeek »

radicaldreamer wrote: post #70

What is the best-in-class iOS app using OpenStreetMap? For iPhone, MagicEarth looks extremely good ( https://www.magicearth.com/ ), but I'm wondering if people have other recommendations...

Have you tried OsmAnd?

Their iOS offering has gotten fairly good recently. It does cost a small amount of money to get the full version. The free version is complete (it is only limited in how many regions you can download) and more than useful for trying it out.

Re: OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

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Post by andrewshadura »

xorcist wrote: post #59
einpoklum wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm using an app called Maps.Me, which seems to be OSM-based. It's kind of commercialized, which I don't like, but it's usable. I'd be interested in something more FOSSy, myself.

There used to be a free fork of Maps.me called simply Maps on F-Droid here: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.axet.maps Very nicely designed. It seems to be gone now however, maybe someone else knows why.

There's a new one called OMaps, currently in an early stages of development.

https://github.com/omapsapp

https://matrix.to/#/#omapsapp:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=...

Re: OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

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Post by andrewshadura »

spurgu wrote: post #64
einpoklum wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm using an app called Maps.Me, which seems to be OSM-based. It's kind of commercialized, which I don't like, but it's usable. I'd be interested in something more FOSSy, myself.

Maps.me was on HN a couple of weeks back. MAPS.ME is gone. We must bring it back: https://telegra.ph/What-happened-to-the-old-MAPSME-12-20 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25515004

The most active fork is probably OMaps.

https://github.com/omapsapp

https://matrix.to/#/#omapsapp:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=...

Re: OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

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Post by andrewshadura »

blendergeek wrote: post #151
tppiotrowski wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been using maps.me for about 5 years. It is becoming more and more commercialized but it's fast and has a simple interface.

Maps.me was recently purchased by a weird payments company and replaced with a generic reference MapBox OSM app. This might have been reverted later but it was big on HN a few weeks ago.

It was reverted, but a fork started nevertheless, OMaps, currently in an early stages of development.

https://github.com/omapsapp

Matrix chat: https://matrix.to/#/#omapsapp:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=...

Re: OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

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Post by berkes »

qwertay wrote: post #144
tracerbulletx wrote: post #74

As Google has lost it's sheen of benevolence over the last decade public knowledge projects like this become ever more appealing. Wikipedia proves they can be wildly successful all without capital investment and the perverse incentives that follow.

Wikipedia shows that average people are pretty good at assembling data. The problem is drive by contributors are not very good at developing software. Wikipedia is super basic software wise while GIS and everything around it is extremely complex. The data in OSM is pretty good but there are no apps for it that are actually good other than leaflet JS for embedding on sites. Have to remember that a maps app is way more…

Graphhopper is an excellent open source routing engine.

I'm not sure if you are really saying that Open Source is unfit for GIS. Because there is a lot of proof it is a perfectly suited model for GIS.

Re: OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

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Post by tauntz »

guntars wrote: post #14

Lyft has access to some pretty good data on where the roads actually are and if there are any closures. Looks like they are already contributing back, which is awesome. Something I've never heard being done, but could be very helpful for cities, is tracking the bumpiness of roads as a metric for road quality. The city could have near real time access to information on where the potholes are. I'd think they'd be willi…

I did a prototype for that idea back in the J2ME days when the first phones came out that had accelerometers. It works surprisingly well, provided you have lots of data (multiple cars driving through the same route to average out any random fluctuations due to driving style etc).

There were two issues: 1) It was way too early for this idea as the devices that had the HW for it were rather rare 2) I had no killer app that would entice people to install and run the app. There were no app-taxi companies at the time and just telling people that "please download and open that app when you are driving to help the local municipality fix the roads" wasn't really going to fly

I'd still love to work on that idea though.. one day :)

Re: OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

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Post by freidenker »

mongol wrote: post #88
CivBase wrote: post #26

I've been looking to replace Google Maps with OSM on my smartphone. OSM itself is great, but I've been having a harder time finding a good app to use it with. Is anyone familiar with a good option? I mostly use a maps app for location searches and real-time GPS navigation, but offline maps and location sharing are nice-to-have features. I've been using OsmAnd and it's okay. The interface is pretty good. It supports o…

I like Locus maps a lot. The UI is a little busy but once you get used to it you appreciate it because it really is a work of love.

And with Locus maps you can use OpenAndroMaps [1] as a map source.

With their map styles [2] OpenAndroMaps are IMO the best hiking maps you can get. They even added very precise elevation data from LIDAR scans recently.

[1] https://www.openandromaps.org/en

[2] https://www.openandromaps.org/en/legend/elevate-mountain-hik...

Re: OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

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Post by izacus »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #79
petre wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple, Amazon, Facebook and MS have been lately contributing a lot to OSM, so what you see on Apple Maps might very well be OSM data. https://joemorrison.medium.com/openstreetmap-is-having-a-mom...

Apple Maps has been OpenStreetMap for years.

No, Apple is USING OpenStreetMap which is a different thing - they pulled the data but haven't contributed much back as they're building their own proprietary backend.
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