Voyager

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Organic Maps: An Open-Source Maps App That Doesn't Suck (hardfault.life)
 

My impression of Organic Maps immediately improved when I started driving. It talks! It knows exit numbers! It can tell you which lanes to use! Sure, it isn’t as polished as Google Maps, but all of the functionality is present. The UI is high-contrast and easy to read, although I wish the text showing exit numbers/street names was a little bigger. When you’re simply on the road and following directions, Organic Maps feels every bit as intuitive as Google Maps.

As my fiancee and I prepared to set off into the boonies, I plugged in the address of our hotel. About 45 seconds later, Organic Maps returned the 300-mile route to our destination. It can take a lot longer to calculate longer routes using your phone’s processor instead of a huge cloud server. It didn’t really bother me though; 45 seconds is nothing compared to the 6-hour trip ahead. If that’s the cost of using a maps app that doesn’t spray your personal data all over the internet, I’ll pay it.

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A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials (maxread.substack.com)
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We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure - Mullvad VPN (mullvad.net)
OpenStreetMap congratulations to all the mappers, contributors and donors who made this journey possible. Strong map community 💪 🌎 in c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
[–] Voyager@psychedelia.ink 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

FYI: OsmAnd+ has the ability to record GPX tracks and upload them to OSM. This is incredibly useful for creating accurate maps and add just satellite imagery offsets. As a mapper, it would really if a hiking trail has some GPS data so that the nodes can be aligned and improve the accuracy of the map.

https://osmand.net/docs/user/map/tracks-on-map#tracks

OpenStreetMap congratulations to all the mappers, contributors and donors who made this journey possible. Strong map community 💪 🌎 in c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
[–] Voyager@psychedelia.ink 2 points 1 year ago

To err is human. Try to notice missing points of interest and add notes for things you'd like to have added to the map.

How can I easily map a bus route? in c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
[–] Voyager@psychedelia.ink 4 points 1 year ago

That's a very good idea. My home town is using a janky list of nodes in a Google My Maps and it's so frustrating to use. I added the routes to OSM and they updated their website to reference my work.

Exciting Update: Mapilio Now Integrated with OpenStreetMap iD Editor! 🌍 in c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
[–] Voyager@psychedelia.ink 1 points 1 year ago

Great news! More integrations means more opportunities to improve the map. Thanks for sharing!

Nicer Looking Map in c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
[–] Voyager@psychedelia.ink 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Hey there Coach, happy to see a fellow Ecosia user in the wild!
This map seems to be using Mapbox Streets for its' style featuring vivid colors.

OSM has plenty of styles you can use. Here are some interesting ones that I found so far:
https://www.mapbox.com/gallery/
https://openmaptiles.org/styles/
https://maps.stamen.com/#watercolor/12/37.7706/-122.3782
Toner is my favorite of these, as well as Dark Matter for mapping in the dark.

Though using them depends if they are integrated using Mapbox as we are relying on the configuration of the applet to provide these styles.

Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Voyager@psychedelia.ink 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using GrapheneOS for added security and sandboxing, but I feel that this is a bandaid solution.

What are the edits like this, and what do they mean? in c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
[–] Voyager@psychedelia.ink 2 points 1 year ago

Look at the list of ways and nodes on the left panel. They edited some features on one side of the map, and without commiting the changes, started editing somewhere really far away. Then both changes ended in a single changeset which tries to border around the edited features.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Changeset

How do you deal with shops that have more than one category? in c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
[–] Voyager@psychedelia.ink 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would do a node with the following tags:
amenity = cafe
amenity = bar
opening_hours:bar = Mo-Fr 19:00-02:00
opening_hours:cafe = Mo-Fr 09:00-18:00

Read more here:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:bar

📲 Is there a good alternative to StreetComplete for iOS users? Tips for getting started with mapping (Every Door, MapComplete, ...?) in c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Voyager@psychedelia.ink 11 points 1 year ago

These two rules caused Usenet to be abandoned by people who were once passionate about being part of the community, and instead taken over by spammers and bots.

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