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Today I Learned that openstreemap.org, which I've been increasingly using to avoid Google Maps with varying degrees of success, it just is a tech demo of what can be done with the underlying open data. 🤯

It still is an impressive achievement for a demo.

♲ @djh@chaos.social: But wait! Why don't we first get the OpenStreetMap database through quality control and then re-render the map?

And here is where user expectations and reality are clashing.

openstreetmap.org

is not meant as a user-friendly map or app or anything regular users are supposed to use.

It's simply a demo of what the OpenStreetMap data could produce but not meant for end users.

Turns out that's not what most users expect.

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