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        3 months ago

        There’s a small learning curve I wish some bothered to understand first. Does this app help? The part of this I don’t like is vacationers leaving useless names like ‘Mango lady’, ‘many street vendors’ for a block, or ‘local restaurant’ since they can’t read the sign as opposed marking up the cuisine type, maybe adding an English description, & leaving the name blank. Nobody expects uploads to be perfect but Bangkok is littered with this noise that makes it hard to follow or find things.

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          3 months ago

          It takes effort and knowledge to make good contributions, this app is just a tool to do that.

          I can only say I myself try to make valuable contributions, some other people might care less.

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          I think EveryDoor requires some relatively deep understanding of OSM before actually being a useful tool. So edits like this should be rare with that tool. Many of the edits like this are from when MapsMe was very popular and suddenly introduced editing, without enough nuance in the process. Bad edits do happen everywhere, you need a good balance between people who data curation and newbies making beginner mistakes. In some places, there’s a lack of experienced people maintaining the data.

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    3 months ago

    the biggest problem I have with switching is that Google Maps is a business directory. open street maps is empty where i live. it works okay for navigation, but not so much for finding a coffee.

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    You seem pretty active with OSM, so I’ll propose this here since I don’t have time to make it.

    OSM is very, very popular with hikers and cyclists, and I’d argue rhey drive a lot of it’s use, especially via third-party systems. However, it’s one failing is “gravel” roads. While they support many different gravel road types, they admit on their Wiki that use of the proper terms is low.

    Given the heavy use of Garmin devices, especially among gravel cyclists, mountain bikers, and bikepackers, where terrain definition is important, it would be outstanding to have an app in the Garmin store for Edge devices that could report the exact terrain type (compacted, dirt, etc) with a button mash as you ride it.

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        Yea, I’ve used that, but it’s a phone app. Riders need a one-touch solution on Garmin (or other bike computers, but Garmin dominates the market right now).

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          It also doesn’t seem to let you edit anything more then a mile away from your physical location. I get that they want accuracy but it’s preventing me from editing incorrect information to a place I have just been.

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            You can! Browse to the location, and then click menu button > “Download data here” and the questions will appear.

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              I already uninstalled it so can’t confirm but I didn’t see anything to that effect at the time. I could be wrong.

              That said, I got Every Door and love it. It’s got an icon right on the main screen to download whatever area you’re looking at. The UI in general is more to my liking as a geek, whereas Street Complete sorta makes a game out of it (which is awesome if that’s what you’re after).

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      I will add as a narrowboater.

      I found towpaths also have this issue with definition of surface.

      I am legally blind. (Some vision but bad)

      I have a few times tried to add more ditail to areas of towpath that will help the others like me know what to expect before mooring.

      Seems anything that improves this will help in your issues as well.

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      Not sure if you’re the one to ask, but are there any good alternatives to Strava built on OSM? I don’t need all the fitness analysis and social features, I just want to track my walk route and get basic info like miles traveled, elevation change, average speed, etc

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        So for the tracking and planning part, you could use OSMAnd. It’s UI is a bit confusing but it does work welll. My typical setup is:

        • Plan route in OSMAnd
        • Record route with a garmin
        • Upload GPX to self-hosted Fittrackee or Wanderer

        However you may be asking for something more like RideWithGPS.com?

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    OrganicMaps is amazing. Strong recommend to everyone. I only recently found out about it.

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        • It has the map corpus from OpenStreetMap, so one of the best in the world
        • It works offline - just download the desired maps onto the device
        • That makes it really, really fast. Google Maps is slower
        • You can also use it in areas with bad reception. I’m using it for hiking in the woods where there is no cell phone connection available
        • I really like the UI - they are f.e. better at displaying house numbers and street names than Google.
        • No ads
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          On the hiking note, it also shows a lot of trails. I used it to navigate to a trail head and was pleasantly surprised to see a rough outline of the trails I would be using plus some others I didn’t know were there.

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            It even has water markers for longer trails where youd be hiking for weeks or months at a time. Sometimes those spots are dry, but you can clearly see water channels in the ground where it would be flowing.

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          Google’s maps are decent and can also be downloaded to be offline…? But yeah, it seems like it’s a nice alternative, especially if you want to be free from Google’s grips.

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          Maybe it’s iOS specific but I had to go to a region and download the map to be able to search it, which is not great