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Everything #OpenStreetMap related is welcome: software releases, showing of your work, questions about how to tag something, as long as it has to do with OpenStreetMap or OpenStreetMap-related software.

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

Join OpenStreetMap and start mapping: https://www.openstreetmap.org/.

There are many communication channels about OSM, many organized around a certain country or region. Discover them on https://openstreetmap.community/

https://mapcomplete.org/ is an easy-to-use website to view, edit and add points (such as shops, restaurants and others)

https://learnosm.org/en/ has a lot of information for beginners too.

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Deutsche Post and DHL switch to OSM from Google Maps [DE] (www.golem.de)

submitted 7 months ago by julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 21 points 7 months ago (11 children)

OSM Germany is absolutely detailed. Honestly, german contributors could spare some time mapping in other countries.

[–] amapanda@en.osm.town 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@selokichtli @julianwgs in the early days, people used to joke that to get good data in #OpenStreetMap you either had to import data, or import Germans. 🤣🤣

[–] richlv@mastodon.social 1 points 7 months ago

@amapanda @selokichtli @julianwgs
There was also this joke (which did turn darker two years later): https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Quotes#2012-07-20 .

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