Missing addresses and places
For context I switched to Magic Earth a while back as it was the best Google Maps alternative to me, however with the recent switch to a Freemium model that also introduced a ton of bugs, I'm looking for other alternatives.
One thing I noticed immediately about comaps is its misssing a LOT of addresses and places here in the US that were available on Magic Earth. Can I somehow manually import better address/maps data? It's to the point it's really not usable for me but I'm struggling to find anything else that works nearly as good as Magic Earth.
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Can you check wether these adresses exist on openstreetmap.org? (CoMaps uses data from OSM)
No, looks like they're not, except one I added in CoMaps, so that explains it.
How does Magic Earth have all those addresses then? There was even a restaurant I was looking for the other day that I found on Magic Earth but not CoMaps. Is Magic Earth's map data open-source or can that somehow be loaded into CoMaps?
Pretty sure Magic Earth uses several databases.
Do they publish a list anywhere? I'd love to see what they're using and see if I can get it into CoMaps somehow
https://www.magicearth.com/third-party-licenses
Yes this is what I was looking for, thanks!
Now is there any way to add this data to comaps? Specifically address data?
I don't know, I'm not a developer. Looking at some of those databases, some of them are obviously open and others are paid licenses that the community probably can't afford.
Looks like they use both Open Addresses and NAD, a government-provided address database. Both appear free to download, but I don't know how easily it could be actually integrated into an app as I'm assuming that would require some time of API or something. I am also not a developer, just trying to figure out the best solution for navigation without giving all my data to Google. I did notice there's a "Custom Map Server" option in CoMaps settings, so maybe I could manually add something there? Not sure how that works though and maybe that overrides the default database instead of adding to it.
No idea honestly :/ But if you have some free time I recommend trying out StreetComplete, it's a slightly addictive app for adding adresses and such from your area to OSM :)
Is there any similar app for iOS?
Unfortunately this is a problem in all OSM apps, for reasons I don't understand. I really don't think anyone should bother developing anything else until this problem is solved.
My solution is to use GMaps WV (private-ish frontend for Google Maps) and search for locations there, and then share them to Comaps.
Well the only solution I can see is for us to start manually adding everything we can find to OSM unless there's some way to import better data into OSM or CoMaps.
Check out the StreetComplete app that makes it easy to complete missing OSM data in your GPS area.
Adding more data isn't going to fix a broken search function.
I haven't noticed search being all that bad, there's just straight up missing data.
Also wouldn't the search function be fixed at an app level, not across all OSM?
Same as my other comment, do these adresses exist in OpenStreetMap?
They do.
I use GmapsWV to search the place I want and then I use Geo Share to transform it to CoMaps.
No need to transform anything, you can just hit the share button and paste it into comaps.
@rb411
This is because ME imports other external data.
@rb411
This is because ME imports other external data.