Yeah, that’s my biggest gripe too. It’s awesome for outdoor stuff like hikes and bike rides. But actually just typing in an address/POI like in Google Maps and it finds it? Somehow it doesn’t work. At least with OsmAnd and OrganicMaps.
In the UK we usually just type in the post code and that’s enough to get you within visual range of the place you’re looking for. The map has some built in post codes but not all of them, but I discovered you can import a complete dataset into osmand as points of interest which improves the post code search massively.
Similar experience here. Bottomline: in contributing to OSM it’s obviously most important to focus on adding and improving information that is relevant to navigation (addresses, POI’s, street specs).
Apps or website like GoMap!! and MapComplete can be helpful, but also tend to distract to navigation-irrelevant specs like building types of barns, subsurface of the playground area, etc.
IIRC that works better with MagicEarth. Of course, GoogleMaps still does have better POI and address coverage in many places, and they can train their search on billions of users.
Yeah, that’s my biggest gripe too. It’s awesome for outdoor stuff like hikes and bike rides. But actually just typing in an address/POI like in Google Maps and it finds it? Somehow it doesn’t work. At least with OsmAnd and OrganicMaps.
It took me too long to realize that OsmAnd has separate POI and address searches. Street numbers are often missing though
Yeah, the whole search experience on OsmAnd is kinda weird. It wants you to input each piec e of information into a separate field.
In the UK we usually just type in the post code and that’s enough to get you within visual range of the place you’re looking for. The map has some built in post codes but not all of them, but I discovered you can import a complete dataset into osmand as points of interest which improves the post code search massively.
The repository with the tools to build the postcode POI file is here: https://github.com/hvdwolf/OsmAnd-UKpostcodes/
But you can also download a pre-built one from here: https://github.com/hvdwolf/OsmAnd-UKpostcodes/releases/download/202102/UK_postcodes_poi_europe.obf.zip
Similar experience here. Bottomline: in contributing to OSM it’s obviously most important to focus on adding and improving information that is relevant to navigation (addresses, POI’s, street specs). Apps or website like GoMap!! and MapComplete can be helpful, but also tend to distract to navigation-irrelevant specs like building types of barns, subsurface of the playground area, etc.
IIRC that works better with MagicEarth. Of course, GoogleMaps still does have better POI and address coverage in many places, and they can train their search on billions of users.