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Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates (www.cnbc.com)
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[–] hash@slrpnk.net 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hijacking this to plug contributing to OSM. Improving your local area is very rewarding and can pair well with some youtube binging. Take a look at your city and see if there are things you're interested in working on.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Except when it is frustrating and continually tries to send you through tiny "technically paved" service roads so you know anyone unfamiliar to the area would risk car damage because there is no way to mark a road as "low priority" or "only use if you live on that road".

Street complete is very awesome though! Especially for updating local businesses.

[–] goldfndr@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you referring to smoothness=bad or a narrow width? (I'm guessing you've been using StreetComplete to specify each.)

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Holy shit, I never found smoothness in the OSM editor. Does that actually effect routing priority?

That might be a game changer for making my local area much better on OSM.

[–] goldfndr@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

I'm not sure which editor you refer to as "the OSM editor", but surely id has it, JOSM can specify it, and StreetComplete has numerous quests that are disabled by default for various reasons but can be enabled (with SCEE having even more).

As for routing priority, that depends on the routing profile used by the router; there are dozens of routing profiles among several routing providers, many of which probably don't use smoothness but could. OsmAnd can — it targets some smoothness values like unpaved.

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Does Google maps allow that? Does any map program?

[–] goldfndr@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

BRouter and other routing engines can use attributes like surface and smoothness (and probably width) to calculate routes.

[–] Juvyn00b@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

That's especially fun for those of us on motorcycles. I found a particularly horrible road to ride a sport touring bike on several years ago and would have loved this feature on osm.

[–] ick@infosec.pub 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am using Magic Earth for navigation. Any recommended companion iOS apps for contributing to OSM?

[–] goldfndr@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Possibly not "companion" per se, but Every Door is available for iOS and MapComplete can run in browser. Go Map!! can provide more detailed editing.