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Are these the organization members? or was this just a meetup of OSM enthusiasts?

Amᵃᵖanda 🔜 FOSSGIS

@Synnr looks like photos from State of the Map conferences.

Thanks. So likely also a lot of people that just like and use the app/idea/whatever; not people who directly contribute to it? I’m just curious because I tried to use it to replace Waze a couple years back and it was pretty buggy. I’m curious if they brought more people on… to be honest I don’t even know enough about it but I assume it’s a non-profit organization. or is it just FOSS?

@Synnr The amount of people who have contributed to OpenStreetMap, to the map data, is massive. More than >2,000,000 people, and about 50,000 people edit the map every month.

Which app did you try? OSM is a little decentralised, so there are many.

I don’t recall. What would you recommend now for someone used to Waze?

@Synnr @amapanda

Magic Earth has quite a clean interface and traffic data if you have an internet connection.

Closed source, but uses OSM data.

Saving this so I can download in a bit, thanks.