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Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps (www.usatoday.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm all for swapping apps, but Organic Maps doesn't even have my home address. And I live in a major metropolitan area.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Add it to OSM?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That solves the problem this time, but it doesn't help if I'm trying to navigate somewhere new.

If it doesn't have the address for a 30-year-old house in a major metropolitan area, then I just don't think it's a viable replacement for Google Maps, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Every time I try to navigate to an address that's missing in OSM, I just navigate to the nearest one instead. It's not a big deal.
And when I have 5 minutes of free time, I add the address.

That's how OSM works. There isn't a dev or company to blame, you can literally fix the missing data yourself. And that's the only way it works.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wish OSM had the resources to make something akin to Pokemon Go but instead of capturing something, it adds it to the database.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You are in luck my friend: https://streetcomplete.app/

They have made it super easy and fun. I have been playing it for nearly a year and have made a pretty big dent in my local dense metro area.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

oh yay!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Found this thing yesterday. I've contributed to OSM more in a day than in the previous year. It's great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This is actually incredible. Thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

My test search for the UPS store up the street sent me 4km away. So...not great.