Today I found out that it's actually a lot easier to contribute to Open Street Map than I thought. There are some serious gaps in house addresses in my area and I was painstakingly using the built in browser editor in the browser.

But, you can use a FOSS app (available on fdroid) called StreetComplete that makes it a lot easier to help out filling in the gaps in your local map data.

It's really fun - kind of like Pokémon Go but you are actually making an impact 😁

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[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Is there an open street map based map app that shows live traffic? I'm trying to get my grandfather to switch to open source, and he says it's the one feature he needs.

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

MagicEarth has got a live traffic layer for you.

[–] thehellrocc@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, it's not open source though.

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed it isn't. But is privacy focused and sort of the best next thing.

[–] thehellrocc@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I was just pointing it out for transparency, as this is the OSS community. Still a noteworthy app, though.

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