After announcing it would be renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, Google has officially changed on its Maps application.
  • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    15 hours ago

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

      • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        13 hours ago

        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.

        • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
          5·
          11 hours 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.

        • ArtVandelay@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          12 hours ago

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

            • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
              1·
              5 minutes ago

              Thanks, I was following this thread and wanted to say the same thing

              I’ve kept updating shops that change, new houses, parking, etc… it’s great. I even used it on vacation (when the SO wasn’t looking)

              My global rank is #1554 and ~#130ish in my local country, but #12 in another country I barely visit, so it shows where more people should complain less support more.