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Ten years ago I used OpenStreetMap data on my GPS to help me cycle across the US. It was much more reliable than Google Maps (which sometimes invented roads that didn't exist). Today, I'm using OpenStreetMap data with @organicmaps to cycle in France. For any #Horsforth people interested, I've started making a local website that takes data from Open Street Map and shows it in directory form: https://horsforth.town/ It partly came from realising the domain was free but I also hoped to both find stuff that I hadn't known about and make it easier to see what metadata was out-of-date on OSM given the turnover of businesses. As a result I've already changed a bunch of Food Standards Agency IDs that didn't match up. I'm using OSM as the database rather than create another silo of data because I get fed up of people being gatekeepers and I have little interest in being one. That means people can improve the data themselves although I haven't yet fully automated the pipeline to bring data in from OSM. |
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