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What is the best alternative to google maps, not for navigation, but for business discoverability and reviews? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 weeks ago by neo2478@sh.itjust.works to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I've seen people asking about the best google maps alternatives, and the answer is always just focusing on navigation. For that we have plenty of great apps like CoMaps.

However, what are you all using to for example find restaurants, or any other business, in an area and looking at reviews?

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[-] the_abecedarian@piefed.social 98 points 3 weeks ago

when business owners believe that potential customers are using Openstreetmap based apps, they'll add their businesses. until then, we're stuck adding them ourselves. maybe an outreach program would help

[-] Undearius@lemmy.ca 58 points 3 weeks ago

https://osmforbusiness.com/about

There are some tools to help with this

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, community-sourced is what I would want anyways, so ...

[-] the_abecedarian@piefed.social 25 points 3 weeks ago

IMO we need these business owners to be part of the community bc otherwise the task is too big to map and update all these millions of places with a small, ideological group. i don't think they should have any control over reviews or anything though