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Re: Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap

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Post by james_in_the_uk »

tetris11 wrote: post #6
twelve40 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

even if it does, a bunch of accessible data you can develop with is a godsend. Even if it were a completely commercial service, i'd still be happy to have some competition over the couple of monopolies that are left in this space.

I'm just hoping it doesn't turn into the Wikimedia Foundation, yearly begging for substantial funds whilst its many thousands of diligent contributors continue to work under the impression that they're doing a public good, but instead are enriching someone else's product

Wikimedia is mostly Creative Commons licensed. Not sure that "enriching someone else's product" is entirely fair?

Re: Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap

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Post by matsemann »

unnervingduck wrote: post #19
matsemann wrote: post #14

My job uses OSM for route planning, and contributes back changes, road closures etc. as that directly benefit us when planning the next day. It's a great system where everyone benefits. On the private, I've lately been biking/hiking lots of trails with a 360 camera, and uploaded to Mapillary as CC-BY-SA (and google street view). To make a kind of street view, but also to use the data to improve trail/mtb/biking route…

I've been thinking of recording imagery too with an action camera, using a phone for that purpose hasn't been too good in my experience because it's shaky, especially on forest trails. Also what do you think of KartaView? I'm not sure whether to trust the Meta owned Mapillary, even though the current data has an open license.

I use a gopro max, a 360 camera. Not the best quality since it's 5.6k pixels shared in all directions, but quite nice. A 360 video gives "true" streetview navigation compared to uploading pictures.

My problem with KartaView is that there is no new images in my city since ~2019, and very little is covered. So no one here uses it. While someone needs to start, I guess, it wont be me. The municipality where I live has however mapped >800 km of city streets themselves in Mapillary, so it's a good source to expand on and where I can fill in the gaps with cycling related stuff.

https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/BYM_OlaJuulHolm?lat=59.92...

Re: Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap

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Post by wink »

Probably offtopic, but is there a good way to use OSM for on-the-fly route finding on Android (pref bike)?

I like to fiddle with stuff just like the next HN commenter, but last time I tried this with OsmAnd I quickly gave up, it's not in the same league as Google Maps, it's not even the same sport. What I want: "Open the app, search for a destination, hit a button and get shown a route from my current location". Did I just hold it wrong?

Re: Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap

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Post by NoboruWataya »

wink wrote: post #23

Probably offtopic, but is there a good way to use OSM for on-the-fly route finding on Android (pref bike)? I like to fiddle with stuff just like the next HN commenter, but last time I tried this with OsmAnd I quickly gave up, it's not in the same league as Google Maps, it's not even the same sport. What I want: "Open the app, search for a destination, hit a button and get shown a route from my current location". Did…

It's prety easy to do this on Organic Maps. Open app, search for destination, select "Route To" and then select bike option.

Searching isn't as accurate as Google and I would guess the routing doesn't consider the same real-time data as Google does, but in terms of UI at least it's easy to get there.

Re: Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap

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Post by kitebive »

wink wrote: post #23

Probably offtopic, but is there a good way to use OSM for on-the-fly route finding on Android (pref bike)? I like to fiddle with stuff just like the next HN commenter, but last time I tried this with OsmAnd I quickly gave up, it's not in the same league as Google Maps, it's not even the same sport. What I want: "Open the app, search for a destination, hit a button and get shown a route from my current location". Did…

You could try Organic Maps, then. It's way simpler than OsmAnd, but it lacks some features for bike routing (and routing in general).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.organicmap...

Re: Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap

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Post by pietervdvn »

wink wrote: post #23

Probably offtopic, but is there a good way to use OSM for on-the-fly route finding on Android (pref bike)? I like to fiddle with stuff just like the next HN commenter, but last time I tried this with OsmAnd I quickly gave up, it's not in the same league as Google Maps, it's not even the same sport. What I want: "Open the app, search for a destination, hit a button and get shown a route from my current location". Did…

Maybe Organic Maps? https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.organicmaps/

Re: Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap

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Post by NoboruWataya »

tetris11 wrote: post #6
twelve40 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

even if it does, a bunch of accessible data you can develop with is a godsend. Even if it were a completely commercial service, i'd still be happy to have some competition over the couple of monopolies that are left in this space.

I'm just hoping it doesn't turn into the Wikimedia Foundation, yearly begging for substantial funds whilst its many thousands of diligent contributors continue to work under the impression that they're doing a public good, but instead are enriching someone else's product

The two are not mutually exclusive. It's not like corporations are paying the Wikimedia Foundation to deprive others of your contributions. And you are also benefiting from the fruit of corporate donations.

Re: Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap

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Post by kitebive »

pietervdvn wrote: post #26
wink wrote: post #23

Probably offtopic, but is there a good way to use OSM for on-the-fly route finding on Android (pref bike)? I like to fiddle with stuff just like the next HN commenter, but last time I tried this with OsmAnd I quickly gave up, it's not in the same league as Google Maps, it's not even the same sport. What I want: "Open the app, search for a destination, hit a button and get shown a route from my current location". Did…

Maybe Organic Maps? https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.organicmaps/

Just want to point out that this user is the creator of the wonderful tool MapComplete (https://mapcomplete.osm.be) which helps you adding more information to the data available in the OSM database. If you have some free time and have local knowledge of your area, I really suggest giving this tool a try, you can choose between multiple themes (which will show different quests) and add info that you know the most.

Re: Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap

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Post by matkoniecz »

wink wrote: post #23

Probably offtopic, but is there a good way to use OSM for on-the-fly route finding on Android (pref bike)? I like to fiddle with stuff just like the next HN commenter, but last time I tried this with OsmAnd I quickly gave up, it's not in the same league as Google Maps, it's not even the same sport. What I want: "Open the app, search for a destination, hit a button and get shown a route from my current location". Did…

I love http://brouter.de/brouter-web/ though it is website without a reasonable offline install on phone.

Re: Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap

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Post by KolmogorovComp »

Tangential, but does someone knows which data Apple map uses, and at which frequency it’s updated? It’s plainly outdated by some months for some streets of my city, but unable to report it directly via the app, so wondering if fixing OSM would have the same effect (I’ve not yet checked if the errors are also on OSM)
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