Missing addresses and places

8 months ago by rb411 to c/CoMaps

For context I switched to Magic Earth a while back as it was the best Google Maps alternative to me, however with the recent switch to a Freemium model that also introduced a ton of bugs, I'm looking for other alternatives.

One thing I noticed immediately about comaps is its misssing a LOT of addresses and places here in the US that were available on Magic Earth. Can I somehow manually import better address/maps data? It's to the point it's really not usable for me but I'm struggling to find anything else that works nearly as good as Magic Earth.

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Ulrich 4 points 8 months ago

Unfortunately this is a problem in all OSM apps, for reasons I don't understand. I really don't think anyone should bother developing anything else until this problem is solved.

My solution is to use GMaps WV (private-ish frontend for Google Maps) and search for locations there, and then share them to Comaps.

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rb411 3 points 8 months ago

Well the only solution I can see is for us to start manually adding everything we can find to OSM unless there's some way to import better data into OSM or CoMaps.

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pinhead77 3 points 8 months ago

Check out the StreetComplete app that makes it easy to complete missing OSM data in your GPS area.

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