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I tried it last night and couldn’t get it to find specific addresses, particularly in rural areas. Any tips you’ve found?

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When I type in my home address, it lists it in a city that’s three tows away from where it is. Maps it in the correct location though. My address is correct and in the correct town in OpenStreetMap. That’s enough for me to not use Organic Maps. I don’t want to guess what incorrect town to use if I type in an address to navigate to.

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I have had trouble with it finding addresses as well. I use Magic Earth for driving because it can actually find most all the locations I search for.

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I live in a city and it didn’t map out every address here, like my friend’s address for example. But I feel its fine because that way everyone’s privacy is maintained and if I want to share my location to anyone I can use those unique links associated to my place. Besides that it mapped almost all of the public places and even has navigation built into it(which I thought wouldn’t be available).

These are my initial impressions. Let’s see how it fares up as I keep using it.

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It’s a lot better in cities obviously

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I live in a relatively high tourist traffic beach town, just outside of a large city (~15 mins) and there was zero accurate POIs when I first moved here a few years back. I ended up mapping a lot of the high interest areas around here around 6 months or so back on street complete during my walks, but kinda burnt out on it.

I head about some mastodon or twitter page that post rural areas and a bunch of people mob on mapping them.

What they really should do is post towns like mine that are very very busy but are lacking up to date maps

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I live in a shithole and had to add most POIs myself, but in tourist areas I’ve been to, the map quality is so good here. Even beach towns where 200-300 people live off season.

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