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.
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.
4/n