[Talk-ca] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis

[Lianne Lavoie]

I'm very new to OSM editing, and I feel exactly the same way. In fact until
reading this email I wasn't even aware that you could see the map data at
all without editing the map, so a lot of casual viewers would probably
never realise that data was even there.

As for the searching, I just did a search for Safeway, zoomed in on
Winnipeg, and the top few results were from Colorado, Victoria (as in
Australia), and then various other places far away from where I was on the
map.

~Lianne


On 9 July 2013 01:02, Tony Toews <tony at tonytoews.com> wrote:

>  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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