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shortwavesurfer@monero.town 10 months agoI use osmand in conjunction with gps-coordinates.net so I can get the GPS coordinates of addresses to put into osmand since it has a serious lack of addresses
h3ndrik@feddit.de 10 months ago
Open street map data is created by volunteers. Where I live, you can practically put in any adress and OsmAnd will know the small shed behind that house, too.
shortwavesurfer@monero.town 10 months ago
I highly suspect it’s a lack of contributors since I live in a small city in the United States (~50k population).
h3ndrik@feddit.de 10 months ago
Ah, okay. Different continent, ~500k people here. I’ve programmed in a few house numbers like 10years ago. But generally speaking, OSM knows most hiking routes and illegal mountainbike trails in the woods. And it rarely does silly mistakes while routing me in the car. Something it used to do regularly when I started using it. Guess the experience heavily depends on where you live, then.