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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

And the local community keeps locations up to date

Seen big cities that are great in mapping every flower pot, but have restaurants and shops that don't exist for over half a decade

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (4 children)

Even when they are up to date the search blows.

I tried to find something the other day and just because it's funny here are the results. The business is called X's Y but in osm it's stored as Xs, no apostrophe.

  • osmand: no results
  • magic earth: finds Xs, fails X's-- obviously humans recognize this as identical so the current search algo will never reliably find this store regardless of data entry
  • comaps: no results, when I added the full real name (X's Y, it showed me Ya terrace, Y with one letter swapped avenue, etc)

So you tell me, if it can't find a restaurant for which it has existing data, why is it the users' fault for not collecting more data?

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

For me it works perfectly. Try out Organic Maps then?

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

That's comaps now that organic is persona non grata

I don't really know what happened but when your app only works with community support and the community hates you enough to hard fork the app, it's time to switch.

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Might be worth looking deeper into it though, in why the forkers hate the dev.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 12 hours ago

I'm pretty sure they used the word shareholder value one too many times and people brought out the noose.

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