Organic Maps: An Open-Source Maps App That Doesn't Suck



The chicken and egg problem of Open Street Map data coming from volunteers is as old as, well, as old as chickens, I guess?

Organic Maps: An Open-Source Maps App That Doesn't Suck hardfault.life

Organic Maps uses an open map database called OpenStreetMap. Although OpenStreetMap has very accurate data about streets, addresses, and highways, its knowledge of what's actually located at any given address is spotty at best. Thankfully, Organic Maps has a half-solution to this problem: contribute OpenStreetMap data yourself! Organic Maps lets you contribute data to OpenStreetMap. Simply press and hold where the business should be, tap "add a place to the map," and fill out the form. I ended up spending an hour of downtime adding information about various restaurants, libraries, museums, and stores around town. It would take far longer to add every business in the area, but it's a good start. I love being able to contribute to OpenStreetMap, and Organic Maps makes it easy to do that.

To usual solution to a problem like this is gamification. And that is exactly what Every Door solves for.

Every Door every-door.app

This app makes it fun and interesting to check the freely accessible OSM data, and chance it when necessary. Have fun 🤩