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Everything #OpenStreetMap related is welcome: software releases, showing of your work, questions about how to tag something, as long as it has to do with OpenStreetMap or OpenStreetMap-related software.

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

Join OpenStreetMap and start mapping: https://www.openstreetmap.org.

There are many communication channels about OSM, many organized around a certain country or region. Discover them on https://openstreetmap.community

https://mapcomplete.org is an easy-to-use website to view, edit and add points (such as shops, restaurants and others)

https://learnosm.org/en/ has a lot of information for beginners too.

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I'm always surprised how poor legibility the most used digital map has (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 months ago by als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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One shows only a few shops, often the ones that pay the most, the other shows the true number of different places in the area.

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[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sort of, OSM doesn't really have much to search for. For example if I search "gluten free lunch" google will search the reviews and menus, and is pretty decent at showing me options. OSM would not be able to return anything most likely.

[–] pietervdvn@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Have a look at https://mapcomplete.org/glutenfree

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Looks neat, but most of the time just sits on 'loading data' and when I can get it to load, doesn't show anything for like 100 mile radius around me lol

[–] ame@breta.moe 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

@MangoPenguin @pietervdvn You're exactly the kind of person who can make a difference by adding this data!

I've found it a lot easier to map for my own dietary needs/preferences.
Just try to open up mapcomplete next time when you're in a restaurant and answer a few questions, it's really worth it!

[–] InsertUser@en.osm.town 4 points 2 months ago

@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.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For my area it wouldn't really be possible, there's maybe 1 place that regularly has gluten free stuff, but the rest need real-time data pulled from their facebook or something because it changes daily/weekly what they offer.

[–] pietervdvn@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Then, please, add this single place :)

You might make the difference for someone else

[–] cbed@en.osm.town 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@MangoPenguin @Sidyctism2 Google ecosystem aside, this could be solved partially by just having more POIs with tags (cuisine=Thai;gluten_free) or such.

Google still isn't absolutely amazing at it, I regularly try to find dog friendly stuff via Google and fail, even though it searches reviews and the Q&A.

But metadata helps, always!

Overture POI could help with this too, not sure if gluten free but stuff like Halala and Vegetarian are restaurant categories for Overture POIs

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The problem with tags is they can go out of date so quickly, whereas most restaurants publish a menu on their website or ordering site, and google can pull info from that.