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I used to add photos to Google Maps. As I grew up, I feel that I dont want to support us corporation.

Which alternative is the most popular in your country? In Poland I use mapy.com, and I add ratings, photos of the places. Is there any better platform? What do you use in France, Germany, Italy etc?

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[โ€“] jgjl@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago (8 children)

But that doesnโ€™t include reviews and rating in my understanding, which is what OP is asking for.

[โ€“] Azzu@leminal.space 6 points 1 week ago (6 children)
[โ€“] cabbage@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I dream of an integration between the Fediverse and OSM, where Mastodon or similar accounts can be used to leave comments on nodes in OSM. Of course it would present a lot of technical challenges, but I feel like it should be possible to get it right.

I have seen Mangrove before, but even with all the goodwill I have for finding an alternative platform for reviews it just does not make sense to me at all. The closest restaurant I could find on the platform is 800 km away from me. Without OSM integration it just seems futile, and without ActivityPub I just don't see myself contributing content.

I am probably wrong to be critical. It's seems to be an interesting project attempting to provide an open source solution for the biggest missing feature I identify in the open web at the moment. But right now I find it impossible to use.

[โ€“] dknelson@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

MapComplete has done the work to connect OSM and Mangrove. I don't know how Mangrove works though, so I don't know how much it would take to make it get along with the Fediverse

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