OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities

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  • StreetComplete

    Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android

  • StreetComplete

    Discontinued Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android [Moved to: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete] (by westnordost)

    Interestingly with almost nothing to do but walks around the city, Covid is the first time I started actively contributing to OSM. Although StreetComplete [1] definitely helped there, albeit just as a gateway for actually updated POIs, which still required the web interface.

    [1] https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete/

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  • omim

    🗺️ MAPS.ME — Offline OpenStreetMap maps for iOS and Android

    Surprisingly, the original is still being updated too: https://github.com/mapsme/omim

    Is OMaps available for phones yet? All I can see is source code.

  • Geoadmin

    Source code of map.geo.admin.ch. Managed by geoadmin/infra-terraform-github-bgdi

    In my country, there is an amazing government mandated service called Swiss Topo (https://map.geo.admin.ch), which can be accessed freely. Here are some features:

    - detailed maps from 1:10,000 to 1:1,000,000

    - hiking routes which are actively maintained. You can create your own hiking routes, and it will estimate the time that it will take to complete them.

    - historical data, like historical maps since 1864 and aerial photos

    - aeronautical maps, naval charts, geological maps, ...

    - basically any kind of data that you can find on maps, such as land registery, water planning, spatial planning, etc.

    I am not sure if other countries provide this level of service free of charge. I would be curious to see what other countries offer on this topic.

  • appledata

    Apple does contribute to OSM quite a bit, see around 4:00 in https://2020.stateofthemap.org/sessions/SPRQVZ/ for details of corporate contributions: "Apple is currently doing the most work on the map".

    Here is the base repository of their contributions on GitHub: https://github.com/osmlab/appledata

    And if I see this correctly, the #adt hashtag (for Apple Data Team) contains already +100000 changesets for this year alone: https://osmcha.org/?filters=%7B%22comment%22%3A%5B%7B%22labe...

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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