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Seriously, so cool.
Well damn, they actually have working US address look up. There's literally no other version of OpenStreetMap that has that except AppleMaps.
I wonder if they could add navigation so it's the first and only public Google Maps alternative.
EDIT: Especially ironic: they recommend OrganicMaps, which just pulled so much shady shit it's been forked to CoMaps. And also is missing virtually all address data for the US.
There's a project that adds official address sources to Osmand map files. So you just download map data from there instead of from the Osmand tool itself. https://github.com/pnoll1/osmand_map_creation Their open credentials aren't great, but the Magic Earth app does the same out of the box (at least in Belgium it does)
I stumbled on the opensupermaps site before, but this is the first time I've ever seen any explanation. This explanation wasn't great, but I eventually figured it out.
Option 1: Download file from opensupermaps.com to data folder for OSMAND and it will auto load.
Great, there are dozens of folders in the /Android/data/net.osmandplus/ folder, and files with the same file extension all over. Maybe I should have dropped them in the app's root data folder and hoped they didn't overwrite anything important? I ended up just opening thr files and then pickimg OSMAnd to be sure.
Deactivate the default map file(s) to ensure search pulls results from this file.
It took me 20 minutes of digging and trying things to figure out that this means to go into the Maps & Resources, then to the Local tab, then click thru each section and on each item in each section choose the three dots an dpick Deactivate for it. Except the map names you just loaded, which don't always match the file names.
After all this, it turns out the address data is no better than what OSMAnd already has. The only difference is display order (which is very nice to have fixed), but doesn't change the fact that probably 60% of the US has no address data at all. I know it's a clusterf*ck with address data in the US, and many blocks of address data are proprietary or require licensing, but apparently MapCarta was able to get it. But not OSMAnd, Map.ME, MagicEarth, CoMaps, OrganicMaps, or even OpenSuperMaps.
This is cool as hell, it feels like something from the old internet that you'd find on StumbleUpon
Feels like something Vsauce would say you could Do Online Now Guys.
how dare you age me like that? fucking rude man.
Thanks to this i just did a dive on a (historical) local gang. Very interesting.
It blocked me with Librewolf, but works in Firefox. Seems weird.
Once I was able to pull it up, pretty neat interface! Lot's of pictures of local places I don't usually see. I will have some fun with this!
Librewolf disables some canvas features because they're a good way to fingerprint your browser. A lot of map and image manipulation stuff won't work correctly on LibreWolf. I usually just open a Chromium private window when that happens. There's probably a better solution, but I also have to use some sites for work that only work on chromium-based browsers as well.
Is there a possibility to enable these per site?
That could be. I tried the user agent switcheroo but then got stuck in a Cloudfare loop. While it worked for me in Firefox, I haven't really fiddled much with the settings in it so it probably didn't offer much protection and I didn't do a private window. I think the best answer, for me, is to keep things like this partitioned off from some main browsing session. Not my area of expertise!
The OSM data seems to be 1-2 months old.
Not bad when you consider that Google has about the same (or longer) update delay.
I'm not ragging, I can wait for my edits to come through, or go check them on OSMand.
Thanks for the link too, Mapcarta is an excellent fusion resource.
Kinda annoying that I can't move the globe up because moving my finger downwards refreshes the page
Doesn't happen to me. Did you tap the globe first?
Yes baby, I always tap dat globe
Tthis is really cool! Thanks for sharing!
Cool find. Thank you for sharing.
interesting... a post with lots of upvotes but not a single downvote? glitch in the matrix if you ask me