For context I switched to Magic Earth a while back as it was the best Google Maps alternative to me, however with the recent switch to a Freemium model that also introduced a ton of bugs, I’m looking for other alternatives.

One thing I noticed immediately about comaps is its misssing a LOT of addresses and places here in the US that were available on Magic Earth. Can I somehow manually import better address/maps data? It’s to the point it’s really not usable for me but I’m struggling to find anything else that works nearly as good as Magic Earth.

  • rb411@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    6 days ago

    No, looks like they’re not, except one I added in CoMaps, so that explains it.

    How does Magic Earth have all those addresses then? There was even a restaurant I was looking for the other day that I found on Magic Earth but not CoMaps. Is Magic Earth’s map data open-source or can that somehow be loaded into CoMaps?

      • rb411@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Do they publish a list anywhere? I’d love to see what they’re using and see if I can get it into CoMaps somehow

          • rb411@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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            4 days ago

            Yes this is what I was looking for, thanks!

            Now is there any way to add this data to comaps? Specifically address data?

            • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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              4 days ago

              I don’t know, I’m not a developer. Looking at some of those databases, some of them are obviously open and others are paid licenses that the community probably can’t afford.

              • rb411@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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                4 days ago

                Looks like they use both Open Addresses and NAD, a government-provided address database. Both appear free to download, but I don’t know how easily it could be actually integrated into an app as I’m assuming that would require some time of API or something. I am also not a developer, just trying to figure out the best solution for navigation without giving all my data to Google. I did notice there’s a “Custom Map Server” option in CoMaps settings, so maybe I could manually add something there? Not sure how that works though and maybe that overrides the default database instead of adding to it.

    • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      No idea honestly :/ But if you have some free time I recommend trying out StreetComplete, it’s a slightly addictive app for adding adresses and such from your area to OSM :)