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TIL that @organicmaps has a (very WIP, but still) desktop app, and so now I can produce side-by-side comparisons. Voilà the query for "café" in #Toulon

Note also how the information is shown much more explicitly on the OrganicMaps view. The google map only becomes useful to #bike / #pedestrian once you zoom all the way in. Somehow their designers seem to be afraid of contrast or sth. 🤷

I just love how #OSM is so much better, thanks to all involved! 🫶

Screenshot of down-town Toulon with the query "café". Six places are returned by the google search, two of which are duplicates, and one permanently closed.
Screenshot of the OrganicMaps desktop app showing the same down-town Toulon, with the same query "café". A bunch of places are highlighted, and the detail on the roads and the choice of colours makes the map much more useful to non-cars.
13 May at 11:34 | Open on mastodon.social
mmcm

@organicmaps note that google returned only SIX results here. Out of which one is out of business and one is a duplicate. Which leaves us with four.

@organicmaps returned ~25 results, and while not all of them are strictly-speaking cafés, most of them would be fine to sit down for a coffee, or have an obvious relation like having "Café" in the name.

It's insane that google even fails to find shops like "Columbus Café" which is a french competitor to Starbucks, and which they *do* know about.

screenshot from google maps showing a close-up of the neighbourhood around "Columbus Café"
13 May at 11:40 | Open on mastodon.social
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