Well you cant really complain, keep contributing to OSM for yourself and anyone using it
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superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks agoIts really fantastic work but I am yet to navigate anywhere with it without looking up the coordinates on Google maps.
Uri@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks 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.
Uri@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
It depends on where you live, for me it workes 70% of the time
OwOarchist@pawb.social 4 weeks 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.)
superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks 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.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 4 weeks 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
Dave@lemmy.nz 4 weeks 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 🙂
OwOarchist@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
When going to a residential street address, it usually doesn’t know where exactly on the street that address is.
Dave@lemmy.nz 4 weeks 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!
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks 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.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
Yes it does.