I also encourage everyone to start updating their local areas with businesses and poi's to help OSM grow. I do it and it's super fun. :)
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Organic Maps is a free open-source Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists based on top of crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and curated with love by MapsWithMe (Maps.Me) founders back from 2021.
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I'd encourage use of StreetComplete, you can walk around your local area and get lots of points to survey with data on street widths or businesses' opening times. Imagine if all the people who were busy with Pokemon Go used that, OpenStreetMap would be nigh perfect in terms of data.
Yes!! I love that app!
Are there any iOS equivalents to StreetComplete?
there is Every Door on iOS, as well as MapComplete and MapContrib which are websites so they should work on iOS
idk if any of these are as good as StreetComplete tho
Amusingly, it's widely believed that improving location information is a big part of the reason Niantic (at the time a subsidiary of Google) created Ingress (their game before Pokemon Go—and a much better-designed game, IMO) in the first place.
I've always been curious about how to do this. Know any good resources?
You can download an app called StreetComplete that makes it very easy to do little edits such as marking whether a bus stop has a bench and what material the sidewalk is made of. It's also available on FDroid!
JOSM and Every Door are great resources!
I just recently put in a Note for a fix in my local area (not a business, but an incorrectly placed toll road), but looking around the area I see a bunch of other Notes that are months old that don't seem to have been actioned. So I don't have a lot of hope that my feedback will be fixed any time soon.
You don't have to just leave a note, you can fix it yourself
From what I could tell, not without creating an account. And because this is something relatively unusual (not as simple as changing a business's opening hours or something like that), I'm not even sure I'd be able to figure out how to do it in a reasonable amount of time. I'm not willing to put in the effort to do all that before I've ever gotten value from the app (since this was a problem I noticed the first time I ever tried actually navigating anywhere).
Can you link your note here? I might look over the area and do some of the notes. There probably isn't any mappers ever looking at the area if there's a bunch of really old notes.
This goes to the source of the maps, openstreet. Organic maps doesn't make the maps themselves
Meanwhile at MapQuest: https://gulfof.mapquest.com/
God, I remember printing out MapQuest directions when I needed to get somewhere.
Someone suggested Organic Maps to me some time ago and I really love it. Their map data is not that old (just a few days up to a month behind OSM edits), it doesn't annoy me with stupid features, it allows routing, and can fully operate offline.
I’ll use Organic Apps as soon as public transport integration is working in my city. ATM it seems to be a build time feature-flag, which is no use for my phone.
Love Organic, but if you want public transport, maybe have a look at Here We Go, the map app from Here aka Nokia Maps?
For public transit on OSM data, there's also OsmAnd
OSMAnd rules but fair warning to anyone who tries it: information overload is absolutely going to happen, go into filters and get picky with them because their default choices are.... Interesting
OsmAnd's Android Auto implementation is trash. Magic Earth is the best I've used but I know it's not FOSS
I use AllTrails. It takes quite a bit longer to get where I'm going now but the views are much nicer.
I was looking at switching to AllTrails from Outdoor Active. Does AT have a track feature where i can track a hike or other path and share it with friends?
I know they have that feature with the paid version. I just use it to find the trails myself.
HERE WeGo still has Gulf of Mexico, at least for non US folks. Can anyone from US of A confirm it's the same for you?
Thanks for posting! Currently shopping around for a new maps app!
When will Organic Maps use proper street addresses in the correct suburb? Something is lost in the translation from OSM.
I love organic maps, but live traffic is something I miss. Is there a way to get that on organic maps?
No since it doesn't track you. Magic Earth uses the same map as Organic Maps (osm) and has live traffic data, but it is proprietary, not open source
Also available on Linux, and with the magic of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) it works on Windows too. Basically, export your mobile data to a sync service and import on other devices.
Far better than Google Maps in many regions and works perfectly offline.
Still using Waze (Google) for traffic though.