OpenStreetMap

“I don't see any downsides to being able to use OpenStreetMap, have used it from a KaiOS phone too”

“OSM is good for hikes but lacks heavily when you want to find businesses, restaurants etc.”

“OSM is a great Project. Like Wikipedia it creates free data from all countries, free for everyone!”

“They also often include "pairs" of lighthouses (high / low, front / rear) where newer ones have replaced older ones”

“Much rather contribute that amount one time to OSM and have details from all cities from there.”

“it's only a few clicks to improve the map and thousands or more people will come across it”

“Very satisfying to chop a chunk out of a highway and draw the dirt road detour that's been built”

“OSM had the exact same issue, but I fixed it a couple years ago and it propagated just fine”

“I've seen several small changes I've made only to OSM get propagated to GMaps a few weeks later.”

“I can pull the most up to date maps from OSM, edit them as much as I want, and they look great on the car.”

“still biased towards the one-to-one assumption that most streets have sidewalks on both sides”

“Love OpenStreetMap. It's kept my 15-20 year old Garmin devices alive for far longer than its parent company expected them to live.”

“OSM is a public service! This kind of thing should be public, individual citizens should have the agency to improve it”

“Users are now responsible for the data they submit (OSM already has tools to deal with vandalism etc...)”

“OSM has a defined canoe=yes/no tag, but it’s supposed to be used for legal access, not navigability.”

“the changes to the OpenStreetMaps database are instant and don't require any moderation or review”

“There's several ways of documenting something, only one way is correct, and it's undocumented.”

“OSM is great as a map, but the biggest thing keeping me from switching from Google Maps to any OSM solution is the "white pages"”

“The great thing about OSM is that if an area someone cares about is sparsely covered, that's a self-solving problem.”

“accessibility-related data ( especially especially crosswalk info) is apparently sorely lacking in OSM”

“This is more about OSM than Organic Maps, and I agree that looking for businesses it's not great.”

“Hmmm, I love OSM, consume their data in my small cycling project and regularly contribute smaller fixes.”

“Your regular reminder that OpenStreetMap has something like two or three FTEs and anchors $1bn of value.”

“in OpenStreetMap, one group can label Nagorno Karabakh, the other Artsakh, and no one has to fight Google”

“For sports OpenStreetMap is much better anyway, in most countries it has many more hiking/cycling/MTB trails.”

“OpenStreetMap has traffic lights (at least in my municipality in the Netherlands) so it might be usable for this purpose.”

“contributing to OSM is much easier when you can just take a bunch of photos and see them displayed on a map”

“At higher zoom levels like 15, querying for features at the same coordinates as your example reveals nearby features.”

“OSM, which actually is being "given away for free" even though people still do monetize it”

“I am a big fan of OSM, but modern maps are not about street names and building, but about POI.”

“OSM has forums to discuss things and is overly chill about learning to contribute on the actual map”

“Open Street Maps is self-hostable and supports all of these calls you'd need to remake this.”

“we used Protomaps, OpenStreetMap, MapLibre and other free tools to craft a stylized version”

“OpenStreetMap-based maps tend to be much better in this regard. Although this is counterbalanced by the fact that they tend to have less data on businesses in general.”

“That's why I built all my geo infrastructure from scratch from osm, there's still some issues but for AI location grounding it outperforms google places”

“Google Maps and OpenStreetMap work fine, with pinch zoom zooming the map when you do it on the map.”

“It was controversial but at some point in the last decade OSM decided to allow annotating surveillance cameras.”

“we typically geo-reference whatever building maps we can get our hands on on top of openstreetmaps”

“people should respect and pay proper attribution to those working painstakingly to actually enable everyone”

“OSM is amazing, but as a global project with thousands of contributors, its data can be... quirky.”