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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2025
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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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I have found a bunch of restaurants listed in my area that Google Maps never shows. Just that might be enough to make me switch.
I have the opposite problem - so far it's failed to find a single place I searched up, either residential or commercial. I had the same problem with OrganicMaps too, so I think it's the OSM dataset. I'm happy to help, so I add the places once I find them in Google Maps, but I'd rather not need to keep switching back and forth!
You can add the places with CoMaps, so others may won't have the same experience as you. All places on OSM were added by other users, they don't appear automagically. It's a chicken egg problem, you can help break: restaurants don't put themself on osm because they don't know it exist, they don't know because few people use it, few people use it because restaurants aren't there.
Here you can read how you can add places with CoMaps: https://www.comaps.app/support/editing-with-CoMaps/
I do! (With street complete), but I thought i would share my contrasting experience.
Im glad this feature exists within comaps, but Ive personally found street complete to be a bit more intuitive for updating the dataset
I do as well.
I think it is best if you do not add stuff in osm from Google.
I'm not sure what you mean.
If I search for an address or a business in CoMaps but don't find it, I switch to Google Maps because I need to get there somehow! Once I've gotten there, I add the location in StreetComplete or CoMaps.
I have seen a lot of contributors who directly copy data from Google maps without verifying it. Which causes a lot of trouble for osm. From the wording I thought you were doing the same. My bad.
I see what you mean. Copying the possibly outdated store hours from Google. Yeah, I start from scratch every time.