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Cooperative community open-source fork of Organic Maps, an offline privacy-respecting not-for-profit OpenStreetMap GPS app for your phone.

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hopefully it'll have search that isn't completely unusably bad, like letting you navigate to an address while knowing if you've actually got the right one, instead of blindly guessing one of a dozen streets with the same name.

[–] Hellstormy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

Also searching for postal codes does not work on Organic Maps, which is a big frustration for me.

[–] lIlIllIlIIIllIlIlII@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have you checked if the addresses you want to navigate to are on OSM? If not, you can add them.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That's a separate problem, and I have experienced it. Many of the destinations I navigate to have only an street name, not a full address. But the problem I have is when multiple streets have the same name, Organic Maps (and it is definitely an OM problem, not inherent to OSM's underlying data) doesn't display sufficient disambiguating data to know which of those streets you're looking for.

Here's Organic Maps, with a search for a road I happen to know is a common road name in my area, without using one of the real similar examples that I've encountered (and which could help identify me). See how all of those examples say they're various kinds of roads in "Brisbane, Australia"? That's...not helpful. Because I know they're all in Brisbane. But what I need is to know which suburb they're in. Because I know I need to go to a particular suburb. The best option I have with OM is to guestimate how many kilometres away the suburb might be. Or to just guess and check if I've clicked the right one.

screenshot of Organic Maps searching for "school road" showing a number of roads with that or similar names in "Brisbane, Australia"

And this is what Google Maps looks like. Far, far more useful.

screenshot of Google Maps searching for "school road" showing a number of roads with that name in various different suburbs in QLD

For completeness, here's what I get in OpenStreetMap on the web. It's showing more useful data, with the suburb and postcode shown. But doing some weird things with which results it decides to return for some reason. Probably because it doesn't properly utilise location data. There are also multiple results of the same road (the top two, one says "City of Brisbane", the official local government area, and the other "Greater Brisbane", the statistical area used by ABS for census etc. purposes).

screenshot of OpenStreetMap searching for "school road" showing a number of roads with that name, the first two being the same road in Brisbane, Australia, the rest being in the UK

edit: reuploaded screenshots with precise distances covered up, for privacy reasons. Both OM and GM show the approximate distance, in kilometres, to each result.

[–] lIlIllIlIIIllIlIlII@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Interesting. Based on #6784 it seems like it's been known since at least December 2023. If they still haven't addressed it nearly 18 months later, that suggests it's not being prioritised very highly. Which, considering it makes the app basically completely unusable, is a pretty bad reflection on their management.