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Are there no fully working map apps besides gmaps? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Old post is here: https://lemmy.world/post/14437575

Both OSM and Organic Maps are SEVERELY lacking in businesses. So many places aren't in the directory.

You search for fast food and only a couple pop up. Search for s fancy steakhouse by name, nothing. It shows about half of the weed dispensaries in my area...

Is there a way to update the "phonebook"?

Has shitgle been spending money trying to make all other maps unusable? It sure fuckin seems like it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But they don't have more data than organic maps since they're using OSM too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

They have live traffic data, which OSM doesn't have.

In terms of search, there are algorithmic ways to get smarter results compared to what is built in OSM per default. So if other users say that the results are better, magicearth might be doing some magic under the hood.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The post specifically mentioned POIs, and as far as I have tested (in France at least), Magic Earth has the same incomplete/missing POI database as organic maps, coming from OSM.