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this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2025
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Everything #OpenStreetMap related is welcome: software releases, showing of your work, questions about how to tag something, as long as it has to do with OpenStreetMap or OpenStreetMap-related software.
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
Join OpenStreetMap and start mapping: https://www.openstreetmap.org/.
There are many communication channels about OSM, many organized around a certain country or region. Discover them on https://openstreetmap.community/
https://mapcomplete.org/ is an easy-to-use website to view, edit and add points (such as shops, restaurants and others)
https://learnosm.org/en/ has a lot of information for beginners too.
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Google Maps has better navigation, but Comaps and OM have better management of bookmarking places. The search on Comaps often suffers, so I mainly use my bookmark list searches for stuff. I haven't used OSand because it was so clunky and horrible right off the bat, but supposedly that is a way to access OSM bus routing. Considering how unreliable many municipal transit network apps and their Google Maps integrations are already, that's just to be expected tho. Huge benefit is being able to more easily export that data for use in Emacs Orgmode, as with other log files, but that's kinda complicated
Google Maps has an insane amount of resources & the time economy of FOSS devs is totally managed by nonprofit donors and/or also overlapping with larger tech employers