Today I found out that it's actually a lot easier to contribute to Open Street Map than I thought. There are some serious gaps in house addresses in my area and I was painstakingly using the built in browser editor in the browser.

But, you can use a FOSS app (available on fdroid) called StreetComplete that makes it a lot easier to help out filling in the gaps in your local map data.

It's really fun - kind of like Pokémon Go but you are actually making an impact 😁

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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Is there an open street map based map app that shows live traffic? I'm trying to get my grandfather to switch to open source, and he says it's the one feature he needs.

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

MagicEarth has got a live traffic layer for you.

[–] gonzoknowsdotcom1@monero.town 8 points 2 years ago

Magic earth is great

[–] nawordar@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it is free as in beer, but not as in freedom, and is developed by a company, then what is their business model?

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is what they've put on their FAQ

Magic Earth is free for all our end-users but we also have a paid Magic Earth SDK for business partners. For instance Selectric.de (a supplier for navigation solutions for ambulances and fire trucks), Smarter AI (developing ADAS systems) or Absolute Cycling (using the platform on bicycles). For more info on the SDK, you can check magiclane.com.

[–] nawordar@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

That explains it, thanks

[–] thehellrocc@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, it's not open source though.

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Indeed it isn't. But is privacy focused and sort of the best next thing.

[–] thehellrocc@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, I was just pointing it out for transparency, as this is the OSS community. Still a noteworthy app, though.

[–] notExactlyI20@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

OSMand has a feature where it can process other info as tiles on top of the base openstreetmap data it downloads, so what I did was pulling satellite and live traffic data from google and make them work as tiles and it works perfect (although it doesnt take traffic data into consideration when routing, it only shows it as a picture on top of the map, doesn't bother me).