OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U... by Mediterraneo10 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @04:53PM (#26082849)

On the other hand, I wonder if OSM's accuracy in Europe has taken a hit in the last year. The lockdowns have led to a wave of bankruptcies of restaurants and fitness centers in several countries, but because mappers are forced to stay home and aren't circulating in the city doing their business, they aren't noticing so much what has changed and removing those POIs from the map. Also, the extremely strict lockdowns in some countries have prevented people from going out for mapping expeditions in the surrounding regions to add missing infrastructure.

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Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U... by angott on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:01PM (#26082947)

This is an issue with all map services, really. I see the same thing happening on Google and Apple Maps, lots of places that are permanently closed haven't been updated yet.

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Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U... by petre on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:13PM (#26083098)

Apple, Amazon, Facebook and MS have been lately contributing a lot to OSM, so what you see on Apple Maps might very well be OSM data.

https://joemorrison.medium.com/openstreetmap-is-having-a-mom...

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Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U... by wizzwizz4 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:36PM (#26084008)

Apple Maps has been OpenStreetMap for years.

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Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U... by izacus on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:24AM (#26086738)

No, Apple is USING OpenStreetMap which is a different thing - they pulled the data but haven't contributed much back as they're building their own proprietary backend.

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Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U... by habi on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:46AM (#26087261)

Apple does contribute to OSM quite a bit, see around 4:00 in https://2020.stateofthemap.org/sessions/SPRQVZ/ for details of corporate contributions: "Apple is currently doing the most work on the map".

Here is the base repository of their contributions on GitHub: https://github.com/osmlab/appledata

And if I see this correctly, the #adt hashtag (for Apple Data Team) contains already +100000 changesets for this year alone: https://osmcha.org/?filters=%7B%22comment%22%3A%5B%7B%22labe...

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Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U... by petre on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @06:04AM (#26087717)

They also pay Kaart to do it, so most if not all of the Kaart contributions are paid for by Apple.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple#Contributions_thro...

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Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U... by kccqzy on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @08:43PM (#26084908)

Apple's old map was OpenStreetMap plus other sources but its new ones are proprietary. But its new ones are only available in the US, UK, Canada and Ireland.

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Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U... by jonas21 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:56PM (#26085587)

I believe the old map was mostly TomTom (TeleAtlas) with a little bit of other sources sprinkled in.

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Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U... by balp on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:26AM (#26085967)

Yes, more TomTom that openstreetmap, that was clearly show by the dataquality. Much less walk and vike information. If you don't drive a car all my sampling say OSM is way better.

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Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U... by Vinnl on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @02:26AM (#26086468)

Interestingly with almost nothing to do but walks around the city, Covid is the first time I started actively contributing to OSM. Although StreetComplete [1] definitely helped there, albeit just as a gateway for actually updated POIs, which still required the web interface.

[1] https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete/

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Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U... by matkoniecz on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:48AM (#26087281)

> gateway for actually updated POIs, which still required the web interface

Vespucci app can be used to do it directly on phone.

Vespucci vs StreetComplete are quite interesting, in many aspects they are complete opposites.

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Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U... by Harvesterify on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:12AM (#26090174)

Also, OSM Go![1] allows you to edit/delete any object on the map :)

[1] Available as PWA and Android app: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm_Go!

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Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U... by elgaard on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:26AM (#26090399)

I do not think so. Well restaurant may be a little behind.

I try to maintain all restaurants etc in Denmark by comparing OSM POIs to public health inspection reports. see: https://digitalfrihed.dk/restaurants/all.html

So today there are 243 restaurants, cafes and fast food places in OSM that do not have a valid inspection report (the pink ones on my map). I think that many are just closed temporarily because of Covid and therefore have not been inspected and the inspection report just timed out. Probably some that have an inspection report will never open again, but I will soon find out. Many of them are cafeterias for employees in larger companies and will likely open again.

Many restaurants are open for takeaway, also many that did not do takeaway before the lockdown.

I have lately been doing speedlimits, mostly from Mapillary. But I have also done some surveying on bicycle.

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Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U... by mongol on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @01:43AM (#26086265)

If you notice this you can add a note to the map. This does not require an account or logging in and it will be visible to mappers.

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