Old post is here: https://lemmy.world/post/14437575

Both OSM and Organic Maps are SEVERELY lacking in businesses. So many places aren’t in the directory.

You search for fast food and only a couple pop up. Search for s fancy steakhouse by name, nothing. It shows about half of the weed dispensaries in my area…

Is there a way to update the “phonebook”?

Has shitgle been spending money trying to make all other maps unusable? It sure fuckin seems like it.

  • Lemongrab
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    3 months ago

    Agreed. Not FOSS though :(
    Decent privacy policy.

    • @eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 months ago

      Yes, but as you say, they have a good privacy policy. Also their revenue model backs up their privacy policy, and I find their reasoning as to why they aren’t FOSS fair:

      Will Magic Earth be Open Source?

      No; since it is also used commercially (we have a paid Magic Earth SDK for business partners), we cannot make the code public.

      (from the FAQ)

      • @kabi@lemm.ee
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        That’s just saying “we want to sell access to our code, so we can’t make it open source”. Basically the definition of proprietary software, no?

          • @kabi@lemm.ee
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            My point was that it’s not so much “fair reasoning” as just a statement of that fact.

          • RBG
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            Yes, but people were claiming they had a good reason not to be FOSS. They could have easily just not mentioned it at all but instead they name a reason that isn’t an issue for many others.