
@CubeOfCheese
The first part is a reference to my general feeling of deja vu.
The second is a reference to these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here/_WeGo

My first instinct is "Here We Go Again" but I think there's an existing map company that would take exception to that.


@przmk
They're both vector based. Purely from usage it feels like OsmAnd is rerendering everything from scratch every time with little caching. If you pan away and pan back it takes effectively the same amount of time to recreate the previously rendered view as a fresh view. This time seems to increase with addition obfs for "live" updates etc.
When Organic Maps updates slowly it tends to feel like vector tiles "falling back" to lower zoom until more detail is retrieved.
@goldfndr

Points of interest and amenities are probably the next most useful. Things like street lighting and sidewalks quite helpful for pedestrians. It's more important that you are still enjoying mapping. If there is something that you know is useful but you find tedious it's ok to skip it and either leave it for someone else or come back to it later
As it sounds like you're on Android, I'd recommend @streetcomplete for easily adding detail while on the go.

@SirKevin if it's your own data you probably qualify for the contributors program if you don't want to help fund development.

@bonjour
I think it was something like £2 when I bought it. Now it's £39.99⁉️
https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=8483587772816822023
They also have a €3/month subscription for 'hourly' map updates (and some cloud sync to compensate for Android getting worse).
https://osmand.net/docs/user/purchases/android
But is it getting very slow these days. Especially with hourly updates turned on.

@pr06lefs
Their privacy policy is here:
https://streetcomplete.app/privacy
It also looks to the tile providers privacy policy.
Only F-Droid would take the stated purpose of an app and warn you about it as an anti-feature, but here we are.

OSM Blogpost about State Of The Map 2025 being held in the Philippines this October
OSM Blogpost about State Of The Map 2025 being held in the Philippines this October

@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.

Apple Maps uses OpenStreetMap data on n some countries.

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.

I think we're missing a tonne of Lucy's "thought process" from the "we have to move on" that seems to happen after her prizes.

Non pay-walled link below. Very sad to hear this is happening.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jun/28/national-geographic-staff-layoffs-report