Openstreetmap

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Overview:

Discussion on the Openstreetmap service that has the most open map database that began in 2004.

Apps:

JOSM: Map Editor

Organic Maps: Offline Maps Thats Great for Walking/Hiking/Cycling

Magic Earth: Great for driving

Related:

!organicmaps@sopuli.xyz

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How To Get Started with JOSM (tube.govital.net)
submitted 4 months ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/osm@feddit.uk
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The language support is another reason why Openstreetmap is the best (lemmy.ca)
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Openstreetmap has 96 languages supported while Google Maps merely has 74 and Apple Maps only has 33.

This makes it way more accessible to the world!

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The servers are back online! (lemmy.ca)
submitted 4 months ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/osm@feddit.uk
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Now you can edit the database once again.

I'm not going to lie it was a rough couple of days without my beloved service QQ

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The openstreetmap servers went down in Amsterdam (lemmy.ca)
submitted 4 months ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/osm@feddit.uk
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Currently the map data is in read-only mode thanks to the backup Irish servers and the outage has been ongoing for 10 hours.

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A Year of Infrastructure Progress: Site Reliability Engineer 2023/2024 Update (blog.openstreetmap.org)
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