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What is the best alternative to google maps, not for navigation, but for business discoverability and reviews? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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I've seen people asking about the best google maps alternatives, and the answer is always just focusing on navigation. For that we have plenty of great apps like CoMaps.

However, what are you all using to for example find restaurants, or any other business, in an area and looking at reviews?

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[–] 12 points 3 months ago

Finding restaurants can be done with the same OpenStreetMap-based apps as navigation. I use OsmAnd all the time to find out where restaurants are.

But OpenStreetMap doesn't have a review functionality, nor is it trivial to add one from an external site to one. Apparently there have been efforts in this direction, but I don't know a lot about them: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Reviews

So I don't have an answer for reviews. But the review databases that currently exist are a manipulation battleground which people should take with a grain of salt anyway.

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