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Routhinator@startrek.website 1 day agoGoogle maps only ever knew where you were going because Ingress players and Google “local guides” filled in all the data for them.
Update the out of date data. Its not hard and the more people use it the more accurate the places data will be.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 day ago
You can complain about why google works better if you want to, but it still does.
Your response also ignores the fundamental problem: even when the data is in open street maps, the search still sucks. No, I didn’t mean any of 20 things in Italy, I meant the restaurant a mile away.
Routhinator@startrek.website 1 day ago
I use OSMAnd and the search is a lot better, not sure what client you are using.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 day ago
Oh I’m running osmand~ and comaps and magic earth.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It is a trade off though.
I may not be able to see the “nearest restaurants with reviews of 4 stars that are open now with no wait times” BUT I have been so many places where google or apple had not updated the map yet and only OSM got me where I was going.
So maybe it is fine to open a commercial map or local review site, or blog, or web page, that is not tracking you for store discovery, then put the address in OSM to actually get there.
And take the time to use street complete when you can, it is really easy and fills in things like hours open, accessibility, etc.
Routhinator@startrek.website 1 day ago
StreetComplete to help fill in the gaps. GeoShare to translate google/apple maps locations to geocoordinates for OSM, and then adding the place in OSMAnd if you login with the OpenStreetMaps editor plugin. This is how those of us who adopted Google Maps early added so much of their data…