geteilt von: https://feddit.nl/post/33407329

We’ve all already talked about switching away from google/apple maps to something like openstreetmaps, mapy, tomtom amigo, etc. But all of these services use openstreetmaps (UK non-profit) as a source and they still miss a lot of local data even for bigger cities!

If you have some spare time, think about adding a bit of data to the map with your local knowledge. There’s a lot of business data missing that is on google maps like websites, phone numbers and opening hours but also stuff like parking lots and whether they’re publicly accessible and free or not. Adding these makes the competition of ALL services using OSM as a source better.

I also use the mobile app https://streetcomplete.app/ and https://every-door.app/ to add data while on my walks, these make my walks more engaging and I actually take longer ones + see new places because of it. Streetcomplete also has a focus on important and easy to collect data with their default filters, and you can choose what you want to contribute.

If you really want to get into the thick of it and contribute more than just simple data you can always check out https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_to_contribute and see in which of the many ways you can contribute!

  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    3 days ago

    So, quick question, what is the solution to run my own self-hosted OSM server and use that for turn based navigation with GPS ?
    Can I do that ?
    I want to leave google maps behind forever

    • Niquarl@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      OSM is like Wikipedia, there is no point self hosting it. If you want to download the data you can, OrganicMaps/CoMaps for android does this automatically so you can use it offline

      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        What do you mean no point in self-hosting it.
        I do plan to host a private wikipedia instance, resiliency is it’s own point.
        I understand it’s not necessarily economical to run private instance when I could use “someone else’s computer”
        but I’m in a very burned out mood about “other people’s computers” and how often they stop doing what I want
        I do want to run my own things, my own fully offline, pull out the internet and it still works things
        If anything as prevention against capability regression

        • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          There is a worldwide data dump (153 GB) once in a while. download.

          You can spin up your own database server and a separate routing server, e.g. osrm.

          You will inevitably fall behind in live edits though, forcing you to download a new dump periodically. As long as your own database doesn’t need to have any edits, this should be fine, but tedious.

          You will probably also need to host a tile rendering server ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Servers/Tile_Rendering) that will print the map, which can be quite computation heavy. The official servers have a lot to benefit from cdn/cache. Self hosters will not.

          You also need a gui - perhaps Leaflet - to put it all together.

    • Vroomfondel@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Sorry, can’t answer this. - But I never use Google Maps or any self-hosted solution, just “OsmAnd” (https://osmand.net/) on my mobile for about a decade. It gives all I need for navigation, thought it’s not FOSS.