I'm very new to OSM editing, and I feel exactly the same way. In fact until reading this email I wasn't even aware that you could see the map data at all without editing the map, so a lot of casual viewers would probably never realise that data was even there.
As for the searching, I just did a search for Safeway, zoomed in on Winnipeg, and the top few results were from Colorado, Victoria (as in Australia), and then various other places far away from where I was on the map. ~Lianne On 9 July 2013 01:02, Tony Toews <[email protected]> wrote: > At 10:41 PM 2013-07-08, Guillaume Pratte wrote: > >I really love the OpenStreetMap project, and I would > >like to replace my daily usage of Google Maps with OpenStreetMap. > > I quite like the OSMAnd tool on the Android platform on my 10" tablet. > Very, very nice when traveling to have a map with lots of extra screen > space. But it too has it's limitations which I'm sure they are working on > as they can get to it. > > > >Second point: accessing POI information. I cannot click on point of > >interests (POI) to get more info about them. Why do we input address, > >business hours and phone numbers on shops and restaurants if the map > >cannot easily display this information to the user? > > Excellent point. > > Hmm, but when I click on the editable map I don't even see any of the > extra fields such as address, phone number or website. I'm sure there's a > way of doing it which I have to look up in help. But I'm not sure what I > should have to go that far? Will a regular person who just wants to fix a > few things up. > > Tony > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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