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@brie OSM is great. There are several errors on GM in my area - things like footpaths shown as roads. We report them, sometimes they fix it, but after a while it reverts to the error anyway. Fuck only knows what their people are doing.
OSM has it correct.
The only thing I still use is street view, if there's an alternative to that please tell me!
@pa27 There is. Or are, even. But.
- Mapillary. The oldest one, with decent coverage, in 2020 bought by… Meta :/
- KartaView. Once touted as open alternative to Mapillary, gradually gets more and more closed. Worse, but still good coverage.
- Mapilio, even less coverage.
All services above aren't open (that is, they're free to view and will gladly accept your contribution).
Then there's Panoramax. Open, federated, something I'd love to love; the project itself and at least one instance are even here, in Fediverse (@panoramax, @MapComplete ). Unfortunately (and contrary to all the services above and google street view), it doesn't work on my machine, complaining about WebGL; apparently my old integrated Intel card is out-of-fashion already.
First of all, @panoramax is a very young project, so coverage is quite small. Only in #France - where the project started - there is significant coverage.
Because it is federated and self-hostable, it was a fitting solution to host the images that people take when contributing to #OpenStreetMap with #MapComplete
About the 'WebGL': MapLibre depends on it to render the maps. Some browsers do block #webGL to resist fingerprinting. You might be able to enable it per website.
@MapComplete @panoramax @pa27 Sure it's a great idea, and a “repellent” to those who'd want to follow earlier projects' closure; and I know that my HW is rather antique by today's standards (and no, I tried on clean Firefox profile, so I doubt it's a question of privacy settings; WebGL 1 works, …2 does not).
It's just I cannot personally vouch for a project I had no chance to try myself, but I hope no one will take it as disencouragement.