OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022

Post by aembleton » Sat, Oct 01, 2022, 12:46 AM UTC

westnordost wrote: post #153

hashtag-til wrote: post #4

I wonder how to go about to collaborate to the OSM ecosystem with code. Does anyone know what are the cool projects within OSM in C/C++? (i.e. not web stuff)

The most accessible general-purpose map app for end users (Android and iOS) is written in C/C++. This is pretty high on the cool and useful scale: https://organicmaps.app/ Both map renderers Tangram-ES and Maplibre-GL - https://github.com/tangrams/tangram-es and - https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native are also written in C/C++. Finally, most routing software, such as OSRM or Valhalla are written in C/C++.

Post by mistrial9 » Sat, Oct 01, 2022, 2:38 AM UTC

uneekname wrote: post #84

mvexel wrote: post #33

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Not necessarily cool perhaps but a critical piece of OSM infrastructure is osm2pgsql[1]. Also important tools in OSM land are osmium[2] and imposm[3] but the latter I think is Go not C++. [1] https://osm2pgsql.org/ [2] https://osmcode.org/osmium-tool/ [3] https://imposm.org/

osm2pgsql makes it surprisingly easy to spin up your own tile server using OSM extracts

Post by osmsucks » Sat, Oct 01, 2022, 3:28 AM UTC

ygra wrote: post #156

osmsucks wrote: post #155

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Funny, I've had a similar experience, and stopped contributing because of it. My case was even more egregious as autosubmit _was_ enabled on StreetComplete, but unbeknownst to me at the time such submissions are batched, so if you edit local places that you're visiting (vacation) and places far away that you're intimately familiar with (home), it can still end up in one big changeset that spans an enormous geographic…

The devs are unwilling to automatically split changesets spatially. The main reason is that the app is intended to be used on foot, maybe bike, mapping only a small area and doing all that on the ground where you actually are. So mapping from images or memory runs afoul of that intention anyway. Granted, that still doesn't solve the case that you may have no connectivity and are basically forced to upload a big batch…

Post by dsq » Sat, Oct 01, 2022, 6:43 AM UTC

Post by alias_neo » Sat, Oct 01, 2022, 7:30 AM UTC

mkaszkowiak wrote: post #65

alias_neo wrote: post #62

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I thought Pokemon used Google Maps like its predecessor, Ingress?

If I remember correctly, at first Pokemon Go used Google Maps to display the actual map, but it still used OSM data for the spawning algorithm. Later on they made the switch to only use OSM.