What FOSS software do you wish existed? (reddthat.com)

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A federated internet archive, I'm wondering whether I should build it myself. With so many journalists being banned for reporting the gaza genocide we need more ways to combat censorship.

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[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 39 points 9 hours ago

Reviews in OpenStreetMap, so that google maps can have a real competitor.

Its not FOSS, but I use to use foursquare for years because of how good it was at finding good restaurants / things to do in a new city. Now that its shut down, there's no real alternative that comes close.

[-] morto@piefed.social 7 points 5 hours ago

As an openstreetmap contributor, I wish this so much. Every time I add places in there I ask myself if I'm doing something really useful anf if it's being actually used by anyone, or if I'm just wasting my time while thinking I'm doing a relevant thing because I know absolutely no one that uses it. Actually, the main osm site doesn't even show details about businesses, but just the icon

[-] vas@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 hours ago

I'm a sporadic/infrequent openstreetmap contributor, too - although I'm not second-guessing these contributions. Useless or not, I do use OSM all the time personally, so reason stands somebody before me did a good job and helped me a lot.

Admittedly, some of the people who use OSM around me use it because at a certain moment I've explained them the advantages. (I live in Europe and people frequently use other modes of transport besides the car, so OSM is legit frequently the better choice.)

[-] morto@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm from Brazil, and the people around here love to swim and bathe in big tech, unfortunately. I tried talking about osm with a lot of people, but everyone keep using google no matter what :(

But recently, I have been giving less attention to adding businesses and more into other things related to navigation, which I know are used by some

[-] mmmm@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 hours ago

I don't know if there's such thing but i wish there was a foss alternative for street view too

[-] slartibartfast141@piefed.zip 2 points 5 hours ago

It's nowhere close to Street view's quality or quantity, but there is Panoramax

[-] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

There's Instant Street View, tho it's just I guess a wrapper (???) for Google SV.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

There are some people working on this and proposing some options.

IMO, as someone who regularly edits OSM, the maps need much more info and basic editing before reviews. I had to add many of my fave restaurants. Forget about reviews when the restaurants aren't even on there. Just saying. Maybe as it gets more users.

(Tangent: I was just in a foreign country where I didn't have much mobile data. But I had downloaded OSM maps beforehand and made edits beforehand for my trip. The only downside is that OSMand doesn't update their maps very often in some places so I almost never got to use all my edits. Overall though the offline maps were very helpful for navigation, etc.)