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Project for people leaving Google Maps. (feddit.org)

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[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Can't we script a complete copy of Google maps data (shops, highways etc) to this? Is the API restricted? Can we run distributed jobs for it? I can spin up some compute if someone is interested in trying this

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Organic maps SPECIFICALLY doesn't want that. It would be grounds for them being sued and having to comb through their database and remove any "questionable" material.

It would be the end of the project, they don't have money for that.

[-] chebra@mstdn.io 13 points 2 days ago

@Melatonin @MigratingtoLemmy

Not Organic Maps, that's just the client. The data is OpenStreetMap, more info about imports here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Oops, right. New to this, just started using.

[-] chebra@mstdn.io 9 points 2 days ago

@Melatonin No problem 🙂 Organic Maps is a great client for OSM. And doesn't it feel good knowing that by correcting something through Organic Maps you are taking part in a community of 10M users who together created a 2TB xml file map of the whole planet, free for anyone to download? It's one of the miracles of the free libre world.