• katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    26 days ago

    I also encourage everyone to start updating their local areas with businesses and poi’s to help OSM grow. I do it and it’s super fun. :)

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      26 days ago

      I’d encourage use of StreetComplete, you can walk around your local area and get lots of points to survey with data on street widths or businesses’ opening times. Imagine if all the people who were busy with Pokemon Go used that, OpenStreetMap would be nigh perfect in terms of data.

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      26 days ago

      I just recently put in a Note for a fix in my local area (not a business, but an incorrectly placed toll road), but looking around the area I see a bunch of other Notes that are months old that don’t seem to have been actioned. So I don’t have a lot of hope that my feedback will be fixed any time soon.

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          26 days ago

          From what I could tell, not without creating an account. And because this is something relatively unusual (not as simple as changing a business’s opening hours or something like that), I’m not even sure I’d be able to figure out how to do it in a reasonable amount of time. I’m not willing to put in the effort to do all that before I’ve ever gotten value from the app (since this was a problem I noticed the first time I ever tried actually navigating anywhere).