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How does it compare to AllTrails in America?
Unless I’m mistaken they both ultimately use OpenStreetMap data. So, effectively the same coverage of trails. AllTrails has its whole review system sitting on top of course.
perfect timing. i was using OpenStreetMap for my ios running app and I found out that there is a cap so I ended up switching to a paid solution and have been trying to build something like comaps by downloading all the tiles
Look into protomaps instead. One ~100GB archive for the entire world
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To what end? I can think of 10 reasons immediately off the top of my head, but it’s far easier to fill existing open source projects with agent contributors for most of them. Do you really need someone to rhyme out why state actors do what they do?
An example would be very interesting and yes explaining what they’re up to would be interesting as well. Otherwise it sounds like a made up conspiracy theory….
Does anybody know of a feasible alternative to Google Timeline?
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> what's an extra field? That is not a flag "is the crossing wheelchair accessible?". It's user created picture or text. This can be any kind of content, abusive, regulated by law, spam, subjective for chat control "age verification" controls, copyrighted and so on. Moderation is a hard topic. Only very small communities can do that well.
To be fair there are examples of freeform text tags in OpenStreetMap already, e.g. “description”.
Absolutely, can be abused. But there can be thousands of reviews of a pizza place, with text, surprising languages, slang, pictures... But only one description.
One of the main things that keeps me from using essentially all OSM-based mapping apps as my primary is that search seems incredibly bad. I can't blend city and name, road and category, can't usually filter by features or open time, and results are almost always something like: - a result 500 feet away that sounds nothing like what you searched for - a result 23 miles away that shares one word but nothing else - a re…
Could you try https://cartes.app and share your search terms and expectations ? We're using Photon, an OpenSearch search engine. We've build a dictionary of place categories to help in-browser with FuseJS. Also thinking about using embeddings to complement this.
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Even for driving the major apps are crappy about routes. I was on Foothills Parkway a while ago and wanted to keep Apple Maps running just as a "miles/time remaining" indicator. It can't do anything other than fastest route, with the option to ignore highways. So unless you set a waypoint halfway between every single entry/exit, it will want to get off the parkway and take US 321 instead. You can manually set up the…
I had the same issue planning roadtrips where the journey is the destination. I’ve paid for apps like InRoute despite poor UX, inability to access my routes from desktop, and zero collaboration support I got increasingly frustrated looking for a replacement that I made https://plotalong.app in my spare time so that my wife and I could plan and save our motorcycle trips together. We still have to add the occasional “v…
If you're ever near the Smokies, here's a loop from Knoxville through Foothills Parkway (west section), Tail of the Dragon, and Cherohala Skyway, with a detour up to Maple Springs Overlook (site of a popular annual hill climb).
https://plotalong.app/maps/b53f3c01-4e3c-4b52-a560-4a3259e08...
Having a complete and updated registry of businesses with operating hours is the bare minimum, and OSM apps already struggle with that. I also want pictures of the establishment, pictures of the menu for restaurants, and price estimates for fuel and hotels.
I understand the cost of hosting and moderating that stuff is enormous, but that's what it will take for me to finally convert.
Sorry for the slight off-topic: Is there any standard protocol/format for "layers" that could be added to such Map apps? Let's say I want to write a plugin to add my own kind of data, and then I want to export this new kind of data so that someone can import them. Or I want to create a website with my own data on top of existing one.
This is all OSM-based. OSM is one big pile of data - we don't do layers. It is also best to add it directly into OSM, importing data afterwards is tricky. My talk at Why25 should be a good intro ( https://media.ccc.de/v/why2025-198-openstreetmap-for-beginne... ), but the OSM-wiki also contains some valuable sources: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tags , https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_features There are…
Relevant thread from yesterday's thread on the original project this was forked from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794575 https://itsfoss.com/news/organic-maps-fork-comaps/ > Despite being advertised as a community-driven project, key decisions, including financial management, partnerships (with Kayak, for instance), and the inclusion of proprietary components in the code were made by a small group of shareh…
Nitpick: Organic Map is not original project. It's a fork of Maps.me.