OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo
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OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo
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Re: OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo
#2It is awesome. Here's a docker image that'll serve as a tile server. Add a JS library (I use d3) and a OSM snapshot and go.
https://github.com/geo-data/openstreetmap-tiles-docker
Note: a bit finicky.
Re: OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo
#3When I was traveling overland in central Asia, everybody I met was using maps.me with OSM. The maps were of surprisingly good quality and maps.me is superb, allowing the maps for whole countries to be downloaded (ideal if you don't have a data plan) and the route calculation is quick as long as the road grid isn't too dense.
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#4The only thing OSM is missing is a good open places database
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#5I do a lot of mountain bike trail mapping work using OpenStreetMap, and it's really bugged me that more public-service mapping projects (eg: MTB Project) don't build on OSM. They all tend to instead build their own mapping set which requires stuff to be re-entered... It's kind of a pain.
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#6I recently used maps.me while in Europe (Germany and Poland), with no data plan and only GPS on Airplane mode. With the downloaded maps, it was great. It even included entertainment, restaurants and some transportation options.
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#7When I was traveling overland in central Asia, everybody I met was using maps.me with OSM. The maps were of surprisingly good quality and maps.me is superb, allowing the maps for whole countries to be downloaded (ideal if you don't have a data plan) and the route calculation is quick as long as the road grid isn't too dense.
I have been using it in Chile for over a year now and it has been working great. When I arrived, multiple people told me that Google Maps was terrible here, but I have had good luck with OSM.
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#8The only thing OSM is missing is a good open places database
There is widely used tagging for a large variety of place types, and it isn't all that complicated to extract that data (which is maybe glib, but the extraction shouldn't be a big hurdle for someone that is using the data for something interesting). So the problem is that the data is sparse.
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#9IMHO Leaflet/OSM dev experience is so much better than Google maps - really glad to have this option.
Re: OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo
#10The only thing OSM is missing is a good open places database
If this is what you're referring to, we're getting there: http://openaddresses.io/