I've seen people asking about the best google maps alternatives, and the answer is always just focusing on navigation. For that we have plenty of great apps like CoMaps.

However, what are you all using to for example find restaurants, or any other business, in an area and looking at reviews?

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[–] the_abecedarian@piefed.social 84 points 2 days ago (2 children)

when business owners believe that potential customers are using Openstreetmap based apps, they'll add their businesses. until then, we're stuck adding them ourselves. maybe an outreach program would help

[–] Undearius@lemmy.ca 50 points 2 days ago

https://osmforbusiness.com/about

There are some tools to help with this

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, community-sourced is what I would want anyways, so ...

[–] the_abecedarian@piefed.social 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

IMO we need these business owners to be part of the community bc otherwise the task is too big to map and update all these millions of places with a small, ideological group. i don't think they should have any control over reviews or anything though

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago

That raises the question moderation regarding reviews. There is some needed since there is some dubious reviews prsctices.