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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.

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Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I use OSMAnd and the search is a lot better, not sure what client you are using.

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- balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Oh I’m running osmand~ and comaps and magic earth.
  
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  - 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.
    
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    balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    This is a straw man. I have no interest in that, what I want is to be able to see points of interest more or less immediately after the business appears and I want search to work. The immediately problem could easily be resolved by lots of these restaurant vendors like door dash, slice, etc incorporated adding the restaurant to osm and it would basically cost them nothing.
    
    And if I used a commercial map to find the place, why wouldn’t I stay there? Google maps also has better directions because it has traffic data. Like I get we all hate google but the argument osm is good or even fine just doesn’t make sense to me.
    
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  - 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…
    
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    balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Right, so it works real well if you already know where you’re going.
    
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