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@uninvitedguest @shoobs ooh, I didn’t realise there was source available

@controlphreak @snrkl
Now that StreetComplete has overlay layers for places and things you can add most of the thing you’d want to add in person.

@Adderbox76 @openstreetmap

I know the author has already mentioned it, but MapComplete.org might be a good site to look at if you’re just starting and have local knowledge of an area. I know in my early days mapping that just looking at a list of map features would remind me about places that I’ve know about forever and never thought to put on a map. The MapComplete themes might have some obvious omissions that you can fix quickly.

@Mwa @joostjakob

Apple Maps uses OpenStreetMap data on n some countries.

@yetiftw @ILikePigeons

IIRC At one point Google Maps would let you download a map for browsing, but you couldn’t do offline navigation. Don’t know if that’s still the case.

Organic Maps does the routing on the device.

@MigratingtoLemmy @101 @openstreetmap

No, this is against Google TOS and OpenStreetMap policy on data sources and the Data Working Group will step in and block any accounts doing this to protect the project as a whole.

@als @Adderbox76 @openstreetmap

I suspect that’s because if you read the post it looks like OP is a beginner and not an experienced editor.

Vespucci, JOSM and level0 aren’t getting mentioned either because they aren’t the best starting points.

@thibaultmol @unknowing8343 @openstreetmap

Maybe, but they also seem to be making intermediate standards to make it easier to wean themselves off OSM.

It’s not clear yet if that is actually a goal or a side effect.

@BitSound @openstreetmap
There is no real reason to break things up block by block unless the blocks have unique names or something. It’s also a pain to edit when the areas have been glued to the roads.

So yeah, leave them big.

@SomeAmateur @Adderbox76 @openstreetmap
I think in its usual setting StreetComplete uploads as soon as you make it (if you have an internet connection). It can also be set to upload when you reach WiFi or manually.

@ame @MangoPenguin @pietervdvn
StreetComplete does have a couple of quests for this that default to disabled so you can turn them on if you’re interested.

@Showroom7561 @openstreetmap
Well yeah, if you get some beefy server somewhere else to do the rendering it will be quicker.
I don’t know if Organic Maps and the like actually store vector tiles locally to get the speed up or what, but they’re clearly doing something better.

@Showroom7561 @pietervdvn @openstreetmap

This is an offline render, internet speed shouldn’t have any effect.

The lack of caching of previously rendered areas is annoying.

@mamus @gigachad @openstreetmap

This problem has been getting worse for years, they seem more interested in new premium subscription bloat than having an app that works at a usable speed.

@cbed @TheFrirish@jlai.lu @mamus @openstreetmap
Something very expensive to maintain, but not very useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant

@mamus @openstreetmap
It just getting worse the more they do to it.

It doesn’t even seem to have a cache for locally rendered tiles so if you pan to a new area and pan back you get to wait a second time.

@woelkchen @openstreetmap Odd that this hasn’t made it to the main website yet?

http://merkaartor.be/

@NeatNit @openstreetmap
switching topics again are we?

They rolled out a massive new warning type and then didn’t have all their apps accept it as OK. That is a deliberate choice. It is their ecosystem from top to bottom, they *chose* not to have the TetheredNet added to the list of allowed warnings in existing installs. If they hadn’t wanted to make that choice they should have done the responsible thing and held the rollout until their app supported it.

@NeatNit @openstreetmap

I would assume the same as the reason for warning about this in the first place? They don’t seem to like devs tying things back to preset websites and think it deserves a massive warning icon.

@gedaliyah @NeatNit @openstreetmap

If you select a hotel found on Kayak it will add an affiliate link to Kayak in addition to the direct link stored in OpenStreetMap.

If you know to look in https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/blob/master/metadata/app.organicmaps.yml you will find:

“AntiFeatures:
TetheredNet:
en-US: Map download service (cdn*.organicmaps.app).
NonFreeNet:
en-US: Hotel widget includes a link to kayak.com not contained in original map
data.”

It’s new so I think more will probably be flagged later.