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Open Street maps has gotten much better (www.openstreetmap.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think now with the data available it's time the foss community can build something out of it.

Perhaps a bitcoin based uber alternative for the ultra brave.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hey mob! Nice to see you here.

The one thing I found annoying about OSM isn't even wrong, it's just different -- I've got one on my nextcloud, and everything is named locally. So if you're somewhere in China, everything is in Chinese. If you're in the middle east, everything is in Arabic. So if you don't read those languages you can't use the maps.

There's a decent app on android called OSMAND~ which lets you download the OSM maps for your region and navigate offline. I find it really neat on plane trips because you can see exactly where your plane is by the second.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I'll check it out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

hi MOB good to see you again, how's nostr

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's alright. Needs more work. I haven't messed with it much lately

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A bitcoin based Uber alternative sounds pretty awesome actually. I guess the Fiat to Bitcoin conversion will always be an additional barrier for the masses and drivers, but maybe the app can make that conversion for you. So in other words, you'd need to also double as a kind of exchange to do this conversion on the fly for people who want it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I would like it to be mostly contained in app. Maybe a Api to keep up with current Bitcoin exchange rates.

I would use like a nostr node to broadcast availability and credentials. Then the rider would be able to pay as they go. Like pay a quarter of the way and then pay more to keep going. It would have to be a zero trust system because there basically wouldn't be a middle man.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I like it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just curious - how do you contribute to this?

Is it something like you can just download the app and it can passively track you and determine things about available routes, times, etc., backed up also by satellite data...

Or would I be like "Oh let me put on here that there is construction near this subway station now that has blocked these exits and this road," etc...?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Actually I think they are now pulling data from Microsoft and Amazon and a few others. They started a alternative map project to Google maps. Like free data. Because Google is charging so much for their maps API.

I haven't got that much into it. But I might start playing with some mapping code.