• moonlight@fedia.io
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    14 hours ago

    I really want to use organic maps, but no traffic data is such a dealbreaker. Also it had trouble finding the right address sometimes when I tried it.

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      5 hours ago

      You could try Magic Earth.

      It uses OpenStreetMaps, same as organic maps, but also has crowd sourced traffic data. I haven’t tested it much though so I’m not sure how accurate it is.

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        5 hours ago

        That’s what I use at the moment. It works pretty well, although I would prefer something open source.

    • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOP
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      14 hours ago

      There was talk about implementing traffic data but it would require more funding from donations so that will come later when the project scales up.

      The app has recently added traffic signal markers at intersections and has improved the search in the latest update.

      More houses will need to be numbered in osm for addresses.

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    23 hours ago

    Apple maps takes forever to update new information on maps as someone needs to approve it while Openstreetmaps takes less than 5 minutes to update the database.

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      23 hours ago

      Doesn’t Apple maps use osm anymore? There was a time they pulled osm data and used it in their map. That’s one big disadvantage of the osm license. Anyone even crapple can use the data.