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Are there any good google maps alternatives? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 18 points 1 month ago (14 children)

CoMaps is good if you already know where to go.
I use it in conjunction with GMapsWV: look for a place, copy the coordinates with the share button and paste them into CoMaps.
Never missed an address and I use it quite a bit.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Trying to learn, what is the advantage of GMapsVW versus opening Google Maps in a mobile browser?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (7 children)

    Thanks for the recommendation for GMapsWV. I didn't know about that, and have always felt very uncomfortable when using Google Maps to find restaurants and such that aren't always listed in OSM.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    I had this talk with a friend the other week, but I can't recommend enough that if something OSM based isn't showing correctly, you can always add it in once you find the right answer. For example, if it doesn't have hours listed for a business, I'll go to their website and copy that data in, or if the address doesn't show up right, I'll edit the building with the correct address. I found the other day that the address for my apartment was listed over a garage up the street instead of my building and I just removed the one and added in the other.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    I completely fixed my neighborhood of 800 homes. took me a week. I drew in the house shapes and the heights, turned the row home blocks into individual linked blocks with exact addresses and accurate sidewalks.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

    I've never added in height before. Does it just look for number of stories, or how did you find that info?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    When you make an area->structure in osm, you can add it in the height meta in meters.

    When an app uses the OSM data to draw a 3d structure, it can use your height data. (and most appear to)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    I meant more how did you find the height of the structures? Is it listed in a property database somewhere or are all the houses roughly the size of yours so you just used that as a base?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    I live in a neighborhood with 3 house styles; each has a fixed number of floors. The townhomes all have 8' ceilings, a basement, 1st, a second floor, and an attic or loft. All basements are walkout so i count them. I-joists are about 18 inches. So the townhomes are ~ 11 meters.

    The single family are basement, 1st, and second, with 10" main floor and 8" second floor, then they have 16' attics, which puts them ~ 13m

    The apartment complex has 5 fixed floors. It was trickier because I don't know the internal structure, nor the height of the decorative crowns, so I took a Google Earth look at the side of the building, drew a 45-degree line down from the top, and measured the bottom of the triangle

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