As requested by https://lemmy.one/u/brbposting@sh.itjust.works in the comment section of https://lemmy.world/post/16245139
OP I will delete this if you desire.
I wanted to like osm but the apps were all quite janky last time I looked. Way too much effort to get something clean and usable.
can you actually? does OSM have data about restaurants etc?
There are a lot of tags that can be used about restaurants: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Drestaurant#Tags_used_in_combination
But it depends on which client display which tags.
It’s a fine idea but feels like it’s maybe past its prime in terms of active maintenance? Like I checked out my old neighborhood in the suburbs of a large US city and the primary road through it (which the area is named after and has a very big visible welcome sign indicating that) was misspelled. I don’t have an account and didn’t care to learn how to edit it, but I did drop a note flagging the error. Then I browsed some of the other notes and noticed they were all multiple years old. Even Manhattan was littered with months- or years-old notes with only a handful of them marked resolved. Maybe they were just hard edge cases not easily fixed, but it gave the impression of a database that has not been broadly maintained for years.
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