[Talk-ca] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

[Tony Toews]

At 10:41 PM 2013-07-08, Guillaume Pratte wrote:
 >I really love the OpenStreetMap project, and I would
 >like to replace my daily usage of Google Maps with OpenStreetMap.

I quite like the OSMAnd tool on the Android platform on my 10" 
tablet.  Very, very nice when traveling to have a map with lots of 
extra screen space.  But it too has it's limitations which I'm sure 
they are working on as they can get to it.

 >Second point: accessing POI information. I cannot click on point of
 >interests (POI) to get more info about them. Why do we input address,
 >business hours and phone numbers on shops and restaurants if the map
 >cannot easily display this information to the user?

Excellent point.

Hmm, but when I click on the editable map I don't even see any of the 
extra fields such as address, phone number or website.  I'm sure 
there's a way of doing it which I have to look up in help.  But I'm 
not sure what I should have to go that far?  Will a regular person 
who just wants to fix a few things up.

Tony
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