👋 Who's using OsmAPP?

[jvaclavik]

We're curious to know who and how you are using OSMApp 🚀

Drop the info with your story or link to companies, products, websites or repositories where you using it. We'd love to hear your experiences and use cases.

It helps us to improve the app in the future!

Thank you! 🙌

[Dlurak]

Ok, so I’ll just start here:

Other Apps

OsmAPP is by far my most-used map application! There are only three scenarios when I use another app or website:

1. Navigation: When I’m outdoors and need turn-by-turn navigation, I fall back to OrganicMaps for turn-by-turn navigation.
2. Transit: For real-time information or public transport navigation, I use the local railway app or Apple Maps.

OsmAPP Use Cases

I use OsmAPP extensively across all my devices.

On my Phone

When I’m outdoors, OsmAPP is my go-to app, and I use it mainly to:

• Find points of interest (POIs)
• Check opening hours

For quick edits, I use the integrated editor in OsmAPP. For larger edits, I switch to a dedicated phone mapping app like Go Map.

• Search: The Photon search and tag presets are incredibly useful.
• Featured tags: Especially opening hours and a link to the website can become very handy.
• Sharing: I use "Apple Maps," "GeoURI," and the shortened URL string to share locations conveniently.
• Favorite Features: They are nice to have and really usefull but I do not use a lot of them, I like it to only have few, currently 3.
• Basic orientation can also be provided, just to get an brief idea where I am, for example on a train ride.

On my Computer

My use is slightly different on desktop, where I often:

• Look up geographic information of all kinds, like cities or landmarks when I hear about them and wonder where they are and how big they are.
• Explore images and more tags for additional context.

OsmAPP is essential for trip planning. Just last week, I used it to plan big parts of a trip, here the high quality wikimedia commons images are very nice.

• Overpass Queries: I frequently use Overpass query options for simple key=value queries and occasionally for custom op: queries.

For OpenStreetMap Contributions

As an OpenStreetMap enthusiast, I also use OsmAPP to inspect OpenStreetMap features. The option to open features on openstreetmap.org is invaluable for checking history and deeper details.

Climbing Features

I haven’t used the climbing features. This isn’t due to any limitations in OpenClimbing—I'm simply not a climber.

[govvin]

Here's how I use OsmAPP

Sharing POIs/location to other people (usually, those who aren''t OSM contributors - yet :) )

• visualize the POI on the map
• for this, I want to see a simple to use, visually appealing map that also protects the privacy of the user.
  • I also don't have high expectations for these users to use OsmAPP long term, that's why I'm keen to see a way for them to conveniently "open" a POI with their native/preferred apps

Quick Editing

• I love using level0 for quickly editing OSM tags, but I found that OsmAPP affords me the benefits of a simple editor that's quick and easy to use.

Visualizing interesting POIs using overpass queries

• I love Overpass Turbo, but OsmAPP is a friendly way to get people's feet wet with simple Overpass queries.

Nothing to install. Registration not required.

• I love to higlight how it's a PWA, and there's nothing to install.
• Even without an OSM account, users can suggest changes.

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I haven't tried the climbing features yet, I prefer OsmAnd for that, but I'm going on some hikes in a few days, and I'll see how it works in the field -- though, I'm not really keen on using online apps for that thing.

[amenk]

We are using OsmAPP as the dynamic map page for the openplaceguide.org project. A current beta instance is at map.et for Ethiopia.

The aim of the project is to augment OpenStreetMap data with additional information such as photos of places/businesses, menus, price lists and so on.

Examples:

• https://map.et/bandira
• https://map.et/bole/schools
• https://map.et/zemen-bank