I just switched my non-profit to OSM (and the route-enabled OSRM). We are loving the ability to host our own servers internally, a requirement from our data providers.
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What do you find ugly about them? I actually prefer them to google maps! Also, the naming of the streets is often clearer (in google maps, there are too many streets without name, even if you zoom on them). The overall user interface, however, is often much clearer in the google app.
Looks like a cheap old satnav!
I like this aesthetics. The google colors for maps look sad and bland to me.
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Nice, maybe a link to a location where the mines are? I think this is great initiative that makes the world safer. Edit: I'm now on some NSA list, aren't I? Hi guys! Just finished Snowden's book, it was great!
Here's the raw PDFs before georeferencing: http://www.euforbih.org/eufor/index.php/bih-minefield-maps Here's an example mine area: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/627538334#map=17/44.32936/...
Very cool, thanx.
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#24I'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…
This seems to be targeted at developers moving their apps away from Google and towards OSM. I do agree though that for a consumer, there isn't a good general transit OSM based app that competes against the private ones.
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#25Timely. Just started a project to document Bosnia and Hercegovina's remaining minefields on OSM. The build system consumes PDFs from the European Union Force as they are updated, georeferences them and pushes the features to OSM. Many tile sets on live maps are updated within the week!
> Just started a project to document Bosnia and Hercegovina's remaining minefields on OSM. That's brave - one bug and you could have people walking into a minefield that you've told them was somewhere else.
Definitely doesn't denote the absence.
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> Just started a project to document Bosnia and Hercegovina's remaining minefields on OSM. That's brave - one bug and you could have people walking into a minefield that you've told them was somewhere else.
Arguably better than nothing—kudos to nathancahill for doing something genuinely meaningful.
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#27How can I, as sole map user, can help Open Street Map to thrive?
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#28Tangentially, 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.
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#29How can I, as sole map user, can help Open Street Map to thrive?
- Make sure your town/region is really good.
- Participate in mapathons (through HOT or local chapters of OSM)
- Join your local OSM chapter (usually a national organization)
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#30I'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…
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 using Google or Apple and unwilling to compromise for the sake of principle.