This app finds incomplete and extendable data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as markers. Each of those is solvable by answering a simple question to complete the info on site.

The info you enter is then directly added to the OpenStreetMap in your name, without the need to use another editor.

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How open is this? Can anybody download the data that is collected? Or is this like Waze, which did something similar, then just sold out to Google?

[–] MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only thing I want to say is "OpenStreetMap got the FSF award in 2018".

As the same openstreetmap site say it's the wikipedia of maps, run by the community and some corporations like meta, Microsoft and Apple.

And some people, like me, thanks to microg use the data for geocoding and don't rely on google for that.

[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its used by Bing and Apple, so they would for sure piss off some people selling out. That being said I have no clue how its run, God pray it isnt as "open" as openai

Edit: nevermind, heres their license, doesn't look too bad

[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OpenStreetMap has been going for almost 20 years now. It's a very well known open map data platform. Like Wikipedia, anyone can edit OSM map data, and all of the data is freely available for anyone to use.