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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Apple maps are better then google maps I found for UX. Sadly OSM based solutions (I do like organic maps) are often just far too lacking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

organic maps is solid but needs traction, adding stuff to OSM by yourself is a bit difficult

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

If you find contributing to OSM a chore, you might wanna look into "StreetComplete". They have managed to "gamify" contributing to the database.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/

It's also available on PlayStore.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

On the flip side, living in a place Google doesn't index properly, I've found adding stuff to OSM to be infinitely easier than adding/correcting things on Google Maps. Google just has the advantage of already having 99% of stuff on it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah, adding stuff to Google is actually a worse experience than OSM, haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

yeah the main issue is a lot of times if you know where stuff is, you don't need to use it. so its a bit less then convenient.

I wish there were tools that when you searched a place you could import into oom, but then, that would be a violation.