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Luna ​:circleA:​ @luna@anarchy.center
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Every time you say "There is no good alternative to Google Maps" you make an OSM mapper who helped out with your town sad :(
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ari prideified @ar@is-a.cat
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@luna I like both, but sometimes the OSM mappers make a drive-by contributions based on ??? without checking reality, which - for example - made them change the address for this building: www.openstreetmap.org/search?whereami=1&query=52.24164,20.98473#map=19/52.24164/20.98473

The proper address for this building (the one where you can see the "Warszawski Hackerspace" label) is Wolność 2A.

And the satellite and street-view photos on gmaps are also surprisingly useful, especially when checking out an area before you actually go there.
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Luna ​:circleA:​ @luna@anarchy.center
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@ar The address is wrong in government databases, y'all should probably report that to city authorities somehow

Satellite and street-view based on KartaView is certainly possible, but no app has integrated them yet :( The polish Geoportal's orthoimagery is much higher quality than Google's satellite view. But OSM in my area is mapped to the point where I don't even need satellite imagery because it's more accurate
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ari prideified @ar@is-a.cat
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@luna Not enough spoons to report that to city authorities. Also, ideally we'd actually want to change the building address, as - again, in reality, not on some maps - there are quite a few buildings around it that share the same "Wolność 2A" address, which causes problems with shipping companies and food delivery.
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Luna ​:circleA:​ @luna@anarchy.center
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@ar Then it sounds like they already changed it for you without announcing it? Geoportal says the address is up to date as of January 2023, I wouldn't be surprised if they did that so there aren't multiple buildings with the same address
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ari prideified @ar@is-a.cat
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@luna In which case that would mean the city authorities didn't bother to notify anyone actually using the building about the changes.
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender 🔜 eth0 @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@ar @luna targeo seems to know where żelazna 103a is, which does make sense, however google doesn't know so yeah
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Luna ​:circleA:​ @luna@anarchy.center
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@jeder @ar I don't think Google even uses any survey or governmental data for addresses anymore, it's all crowdsourced
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender 🔜 eth0 @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@luna @ar and yeah city seems to use that
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Luna ​:circleA:​ @luna@anarchy.center
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@jeder @ar warszawa.e-mapa.net which is yet another city-maintained map says Żelazna 103a so I am pretty sure they just forgot to notify people using the building. That's funny
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender 🔜 eth0 @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@luna @ar or maybe they sent everything to wolność 2a, which is that other building
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