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What would you like to see on the Fediverse? (lemmy.zip)
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The Fediverse is growing and we have decently successful platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon. What else would you like to see?

Any big tech platform not yet replaced or maybe something new altogether? What are we missing?

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

OpenStreetMap is frankly about as good as a crowdsourced map can possibly be.

And it's always improving. Mobile apps like CoMaps let you add business information. There are also apps like Every Door, MapComplete, or SCEE, which particularly emphasize updating OSM on the go.

There are apps for adding photos, such as Mapilary or Panoramax, which are not built into OSM, but built on top of it.

There have been a few attempts at FOSS review projects, like lib.reviews or mangrove.reviews, although it is tricky to reach critical mass.

Each of these are huge organizational challenges and data management challenges on their own. Without selling ads or mining data, it's hard for me to imagine a single project that does evey part and does it well.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

There are apps for adding photos, such as Mapilary

just in case you don't know, mapillary is a facebook project

There have been a few attempts at FOSS review projects, like lib.reviews or mangrove.reviews, although it is tricky to reach critical mass.

I think it's even impossible if not accessible in a popular OSM map app

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks, I did not realize. I just did a quick search because I remembered an app but couldn't remember the name. Must be something else.

Edit: Maybe it was mapillary after all. They were acquired by Meta in 2020. A better option looks to be KartaView.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

kartaview is not better either. they are hypocrite liars: https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/4942

panoramax thought, that is promising.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

I couldn't quite follow all that. TLDR?