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• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Why not?

  Yes, it isn’t really able to take you to a specific numbered address, just an ‘address block’ on a street … but that’s enough to get you close, and then you just have to not be an idiot, use your eyeballs, and find the correct address number. (Believe me, it’s possible. I delivered pizza back in the day before navigation devices existed at all. Had to look up where a street was on a paper map, and then you were up to your own devices to find the address number on that street. And … I managed it just fine 99.9% of the time.)

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  • superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You and I have a vastly different experience then. The last time I used it it planned the route 10 miles from my destination.

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  • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Really depends where you liev, both for the data that OSM has and both for the fact that in some places it’s genuinely hard to figure out which building has the address

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  • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    When I put in an address it directs me straight to the right building. Sometimes I have to go on a place’s website to find that address but most of the time I can search by name.

    Does your area need better Open Street Map data? Might need to contribute 🙂

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    • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      When going to a residential street address, it usually doesn’t know where exactly on the street that address is.

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      • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Interesting! I know if you look back at changes in my country you can see where someone has done a massive automated load of buildings (addresses as well as the actual shape of buildings) from data published by a government department, so I guess I’m quite privileged to have such good data. I’ve corrected some but it’s been at the level of it tagging a garage instead of the house, it’s always close to correct. The main issue I have is searching up a business by name, they are only in there 2/3 of the time, but I go and add them if they aren’t.

        I feel very lucky!

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  • ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well shit, I do that with google maps anyway (only one that seems to work decently for me, but they don’t need to know specifically where I’m going.)

    Does it have the “avoid highways” option? I have an EV now and I started to avoid highways as a result, and then I realized its just so much more peaceful and hardly takes more time, and now all my driving avoids highways.

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    • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Does it have the “avoid highways” option?

      Yes it does.

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• Uri@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Well you cant really complain, keep contributing to OSM for yourself and anyone using it

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  • superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m not complaining, I’m just pointing out that it is close to a Google maps replacement but it’s not there yet. If you are expecting to open it up, type in an address and get where you are going, you are going to be disappointed. It’s just the reality of it.

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    • Uri@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It depends on where you live, for me it workes 70% of the time

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