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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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We've all already talked about switching away from google/apple maps to something like openstreetmaps, mapy, tomtom amigo, etc. But all of these services use openstreetmaps (UK non-profit) as a source and they still miss a lot of local data even for bigger cities!

If you have some spare time, think about adding a bit of data to the map with your local knowledge. There's a lot of business data missing that is on google maps like websites, phone numbers and opening hours but also stuff like parking lots and whether they're publicly accessible and free or not. Adding these makes the competition of ALL services using OSM as a source better.

I also use the mobile app https://streetcomplete.app/ and https://every-door.app/ to add data while on my walks, these make my walks more engaging and I actually take longer ones + see new places because of it. Streetcomplete also has a focus on important and easy to collect data with their default filters, and you can choose what you want to contribute.

If you really want to get into the thick of it and contribute more than just simple data you can always check out https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_to_contribute and see in which of the many ways you can contribute!

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So, quick question, what is the solution to run my own self-hosted OSM server and use that for turn based navigation with GPS ?
Can I do that ?
I want to leave google maps behind forever

[–] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

OSM is like Wikipedia, there is no point self hosting it. If you want to download the data you can, OrganicMaps/CoMaps for android does this automatically so you can use it offline

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What do you mean no point in self-hosting it.
I do plan to host a private wikipedia instance, resiliency is it's own point.
I understand it's not necessarily economical to run private instance when I could use "someone else's computer"
but I'm in a very burned out mood about "other people's computers" and how often they stop doing what I want
I do want to run my own things, my own fully offline, pull out the internet and it still works things
If anything as prevention against capability regression

[–] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not going to repeat what the other person replied to you but just to let you know: https://kiwix.org/en/

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

If that is what I think it is then that's sick ! Thank you !

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There is a worldwide data dump (153 GB) once in a while. download.

You can spin up your own database server and a separate routing server, e.g. osrm.

You will inevitably fall behind in live edits though, forcing you to download a new dump periodically. As long as your own database doesn't need to have any edits, this should be fine, but tedious.

You will probably also need to host a tile rendering server ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Servers/Tile_Rendering) that will print the map, which can be quite computation heavy. The official servers have a lot to benefit from cdn/cache. Self hosters will not.

You also need a gui - perhaps Leaflet - to put it all together.

[–] Vroomfondel@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Sorry, can't answer this. - But I never use Google Maps or any self-hosted solution, just "OsmAnd" (https://osmand.net/) on my mobile for about a decade. It gives all I need for navigation, thought it's not FOSS.

[–] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What do you mena it's not FOSS ? AFAIK it is

[–] Vroomfondel@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well, I might have read the license wrong. If I read again now, I understand it is partially open, quote from their website:

There are 2 important things: OsmAnd uses third-party code only with permissive licenses like (LGPL, MIT, Apache) and OsmAnd code itself copyrighted by OsmAnd BV is distributed under GPLv2 license with the exception of distributing it on Google Play markets without permission. That provides a possibility to build any application for personal usage or build an opensource application under GPLv2 license (cause OsmAnd is not a platform and all the code built on top of the core must also be licensed as GPL).

[–] Doudouosm@en.osm.town 1 points 3 weeks ago

@Vroomfondel @interdimensionalmeme As pointed, with OsmAnd, CoMaps (https://www.comaps.app/), or similar, you can download maps for offline navigation. No need to self-host OSM itself.