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66 points

Maps. There’s still unfortunately nothing better.

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And they’ve been neglecting that. There are a couple of street names that they have wrong, and I’ve been using the edit feature fruitlessly for over 8 years. I’ve included links to local business web sites with the new name of one, links to municipal web sites with the new name, geo-tagged photos of the street signs, and even links to the municipal ordinance that changed the names in 2003. It all goes into the same black hole.

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Helping to contribute to OpenStreetMap using Street Complete has the potential to change that.

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Yeah. I tried using OpenStreetMap for five minutes until I realised most of my city doesn’t have the house numbers mapped out.

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In my experience, google maps has the same issues in some areas,e.g. Tanger. OSM was way more reliable there. You could help fix those issues by contributing. I think it’s fun and you’ll get to know your neighborhood better

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Maps was crowdsourced like wikipedia. Still is.
It will turn to shit as crowds migrate. And the crowds are migrating.

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Maps also has gone to shit. Complex routing including public transport is pretty much the only thing it still is useful for. For using maps as maps openstreetmap has been better for a long time, even before Google decided to dumb down their maps. For bicycle routing osm also is better nowadays as Google is missing most of the small paths.

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I’m going to spend an hour happily contributing to openstreetmaps in response :P

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On iOS I find Apple Maps to be better in general. I don’t think Google maps is as much of a monopoly as it once was

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That may be, but then you’re in the unfortunate position of owning an Apple device.

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I’m fine with that, I’ve always had trouble with android devices but I haven’t had any issues since switching a few years ago. To each their own

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