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Cooperative community open-source fork of Organic Maps, an offline privacy-respecting not-for-profit OpenStreetMap GPS app for your phone.

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Missing addresses and places (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by rb411@lemmy.world to c/CoMaps@sopuli.xyz

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For context I switched to Magic Earth a while back as it was the best Google Maps alternative to me, however with the recent switch to a Freemium model that also introduced a ton of bugs, I'm looking for other alternatives.

One thing I noticed immediately about comaps is its misssing a LOT of addresses and places here in the US that were available on Magic Earth. Can I somehow manually import better address/maps data? It's to the point it's really not usable for me but I'm struggling to find anything else that works nearly as good as Magic Earth.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Unfortunately this is a problem in all OSM apps, for reasons I don't understand. I really don't think anyone should bother developing anything else until this problem is solved.

My solution is to use GMaps WV (private-ish frontend for Google Maps) and search for locations there, and then share them to Comaps.

[–] rb411@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well the only solution I can see is for us to start manually adding everything we can find to OSM unless there's some way to import better data into OSM or CoMaps.

[–] pinhead77@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Check out the StreetComplete app that makes it easy to complete missing OSM data in your GPS area.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Adding more data isn't going to fix a broken search function.

[–] rb411@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I haven't noticed search being all that bad, there's just straight up missing data.

Also wouldn't the search function be fixed at an app level, not across all OSM?

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