Post B0Wb9FHfMiZ2lmSg8e by froge@social.glitched.systems
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(DIR) Post #B0WVXvG0MW6qAk4Hse by brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
2025-11-23T02:36:47Z
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map apps and anything based on openstreetmaps is so bewildering to me. one day i can put in my address and it finds it straight away. i install the same app on another phone and install the same maps, and not only it cannot find my street it cannot find my suburb.databases of every street in the state are big, yes. but its a simple search function. why it broken? why so fragile?if its so hard then proposal: once it works don't make any more changes! just leave it be!
(DIR) Post #B0WXBAiOvJVVMWd66i by froge@social.glitched.systems
2025-11-23T02:50:23.105Z
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@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org maps are constantly changing, even the government supplied state maps will have like 1,000+ changes a month, sometimes a street disappears and comes back, usually this is a better experience than an outdated maps with streets that don't even existghost streets exist in OSM too and it's way more annoying for me than just having updated maps tbh
(DIR) Post #B0WXBBbhbhk882VGIy by brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
2025-11-23T02:54:55Z
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@froge@social.glitched.systems so surely its better not to bulk download constantly broken data? 1000 new streets don't appear each week.
(DIR) Post #B0WXbrtd02rMobbvsW by brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
2025-11-23T02:59:58Z
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@froge@social.glitched.systems the whole idea of openstreetmaps was that its updated like a wiki, someone notices a new suburb so they add it, a street entrance gets turned into a park, someone who used to drive by that shortcut adjusts it.Not "oh here's another 400GB file from the state govenment, the last 700 times we used their data our maps stopped working so lets hit ourselves in the head with a hammer until we start thinking its a good idea to use their data again"
(DIR) Post #B0WXhjSFIZEsN5bCjY by aly@arcanekittens.xyz
2025-11-23T02:56:53.456121Z
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@brettm osm geocoders are very hit or miss in my experience. The one on osm.org is so terrible I'm not even sure why it's there lolHopefully you can find one that works (at least currently) here https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geocoding
(DIR) Post #B0WXhkpKCFIIcxP9LU by brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
2025-11-23T03:00:56Z
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@aly@arcanekittens.xyz the trouble is i do find one that works. then 2 weeks later i use it again and it doesn't work 😕
(DIR) Post #B0Wb9FHfMiZ2lmSg8e by froge@social.glitched.systems
2025-11-23T03:02:42.855Z
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@brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org I'd like to see open street maps go back to contributor only updates, because I'm very certain it's going to suck way worse than incorporating the state maps, pretty sure they started doing that because it was actually much higher quality data tbhI do think they should offer a version that separately labels the state maps so you can choose to ignore them, but also, I'm very sure the state data will be if high enough quality that everyone will still prefer downloading it anyway tbh
(DIR) Post #B0Wb9GY0fREQgl7FFg by brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
2025-11-23T03:36:27Z
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@froge@social.glitched.systems I feel you are being deliberately obtuse. All your replies stroke me as part of the problem.They have already incorporated the state maps, they can keep that, eg pick a known good version, add new streets from therethat does not mean "must keep downloading every broken update" or "must delete all state data" which your replies imply are the only options