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Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

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Post by uneekname » Mon, Aug 22, 2022, 3:38 PM UTC

ElCheapo wrote: post #8

I just asked for directions from my home to the railway station and the navigator told me to enter a roundabout in the opposite direction :/

The direction of that roundabout might be mis-tagged on OpenStreetMap. Would you be comfortable sending me the location, so I can see about fixing it?

Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

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Post by ellenhp » Mon, Aug 22, 2022, 3:38 PM UTC

soheil wrote: post #9

Can you tell us what this even is before telling us how sorry you are that it’s not perfect?

It's a self-hostable web maps stack trying to be an open-source alternative to Google Maps.

Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

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Post by playingalong » Mon, Aug 22, 2022, 3:39 PM UTC

I like the fact it uses Earthly for building. Nice pun.

Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 22, 2022, 3:40 PM UTC

uneekname wrote: post #11

ElCheapo wrote: post #8

I just asked for directions from my home to the railway station and the navigator told me to enter a roundabout in the opposite direction :/

The direction of that roundabout might be mis-tagged on OpenStreetMap. Would you be comfortable sending me the location, so I can see about fixing it?

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Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 22, 2022, 3:42 PM UTC

ellenhp wrote: post #12

soheil wrote: post #9

Can you tell us what this even is before telling us how sorry you are that it’s not perfect?

It's a self-hostable web maps stack trying to be an open-source alternative to Google Maps.

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Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

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Post by chess_buster » Mon, Aug 22, 2022, 3:44 PM UTC

ellenhp wrote: post #10

abetusk wrote: post #3

I'm a little confused as to what this actually is. Is this a route planning built on top of OSM? Does this bundle OSM data "all in one" so that you can more easily host an OSM server?

OSM doesn't have a server per se (other than the OSM API server). It's a dataset for the most part. Headway lets you bring up a server that will render maps tiles, allows you to search for places and get routes between places. It's trying to be a user-friendly UI for various pieces of the OSM ecosystem. There are a lot of amazing pieces of software out there that work with OSM data, but there isn't an easy way to bri…

Thanks.

It would be great if this could be stated on the page.

I kept hackernews open in order that someone would explain to me what this actually does. Your comment thankfully fullfilled this.

Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

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Post by joekrill » Mon, Aug 22, 2022, 3:44 PM UTC

Wow this is pretty amazing. For those that haven't tried, it's really difficult to piece this sort of thing together. So the fact that this is all provided as a Docker Compose configuration is really awesome.

Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

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Post by ellenhp » Mon, Aug 22, 2022, 3:46 PM UTC

paxys wrote: post #6

I tried the hosted app at https://maps.earth but it isn't really usable at present. How do you actually search for and navigate to places?

The search box in the top left should bring up a bunch of autocomplete suggestions when you type stuff into it. Clicking on one brings up a place card view [1]. If my demo server falls over that will fail to populate. Once you have a place card you can hit "bike there" or something and then populate the "From" field that appears again in the top left to get a directions view [2]. Not ideal, the frontend was built in a few weeks by someone with very little frontend experience (me) so I did my best.

[1] https://maps.earth/place/openstreetmap%3Avenue%3Away%2F12903...

[2] https://maps.earth/directions/bicycle/openstreetmap%3Avenue%...

Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

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Post by ElCheapo » Mon, Aug 22, 2022, 3:46 PM UTC

uneekname wrote: post #11

ElCheapo wrote: post #8

I just asked for directions from my home to the railway station and the navigator told me to enter a roundabout in the opposite direction :/

The direction of that roundabout might be mis-tagged on OpenStreetMap. Would you be comfortable sending me the location, so I can see about fixing it?

Forget that, I erroneously asked for walking directions my bad. Shame I can't delete the comment lol

Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

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Post by ellenhp » Mon, Aug 22, 2022, 3:47 PM UTC

chess_buster wrote: post #16

ellenhp wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OSM doesn't have a server per se (other than the OSM API server). It's a dataset for the most part. Headway lets you bring up a server that will render maps tiles, allows you to search for places and get routes between places. It's trying to be a user-friendly UI for various pieces of the OSM ecosystem. There are a lot of amazing pieces of software out there that work with OSM data, but there isn't an easy way to bri…

Thanks. It would be great if this could be stated on the page. I kept hackernews open in order that someone would explain to me what this actually does. Your comment thankfully fullfilled this.

Thank you for the feedback :)