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Missing addresses and places (lemmy.world)

submitted 18 hours ago by rb411@lemmy.world to c/CoMaps@sopuli.xyz

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For context I switched to Magic Earth a while back as it was the best Google Maps alternative to me, however with the recent switch to a Freemium model that also introduced a ton of bugs, I'm looking for other alternatives.

One thing I noticed immediately about comaps is its misssing a LOT of addresses and places here in the US that were available on Magic Earth. Can I somehow manually import better address/maps data? It's to the point it's really not usable for me but I'm struggling to find anything else that works nearly as good as Magic Earth.

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[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Can you check wether these adresses exist on openstreetmap.org? (CoMaps uses data from OSM)

[–] rb411@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

No, looks like they're not, except one I added in CoMaps, so that explains it.

How does Magic Earth have all those addresses then? There was even a restaurant I was looking for the other day that I found on Magic Earth but not CoMaps. Is Magic Earth's map data open-source or can that somehow be loaded into CoMaps?

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

No idea honestly :/ But if you have some free time I recommend trying out StreetComplete, it's a slightly addictive app for adding adresses and such from your area to OSM :)

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty sure Magic Earth uses several databases.

[–] rb411@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Do they publish a list anywhere? I'd love to see what they're using and see if I can get it into CoMaps somehow

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately this is a problem in all OSM apps, for reasons I don't understand. I really don't think anyone should bother developing anything else until this problem is solved.

My solution is to use GMaps WV (private-ish frontend for Google Maps) and search for locations there, and then share them to Comaps.

[–] rb411@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Well the only solution I can see is for us to start manually adding everything we can find to OSM unless there's some way to import better data into OSM or CoMaps.

[–] pinhead77@piefed.social 2 points 9 hours ago

Check out the StreetComplete app that makes it easy to complete missing OSM data in your GPS area.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Adding more data isn't going to fix a broken search function.

[–] rb411@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

I haven't noticed search being all that bad, there's just straight up missing data.

Also wouldn't the search function be fixed at an app level, not across all OSM?

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Same as my other comment, do these adresses exist in OpenStreetMap?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 17 hours ago

They do.