Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back
by Ayesh on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @03:48AM
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Most of the hiking maps are simply not even on Google maps. Only in OSM
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Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back
by improbable22 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @11:56AM
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It depends a lot where you go. In places like Nepal OSM is often better than any map you can buy. In the Europe and especially the US, it's not as detailed as the national maps. They usually also have much better contours (drawn from aerial photos not from the space shuttle).
But still much better than Google maps, which seems very much for cars (at least outside of cities).
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back
by Mediterraneo10 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @12:48PM
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Most of the aerial imagery used in Europe for improving OSM is shot from planes, not from space.
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back
by improbable22 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @01:27PM
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> Most of the aerial imagery used in Europe for improving OSM is shot from planes
Yes I know, and not just Europe. But my comment there was specifically about contours, i.e. height data from SRTM. I'm not aware of any project to crowd-source stereo-pair contour drawing, but if you know of one, I'd be interested to have a link.
Re:Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back
by rob74 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @04:51AM
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Not only hiking! Traveling to Ecuador last year was a real eye-opener. For some reason, the maps on our navigation device (TomTom) were badly out of date and incomplete (despite of course downloading the latest update before travelling), fortunately I also had OsmAnd on my phone, it saved us from getting lost multiple times...