OSM is a great project. It’s the basis for a lot of different tools and as such really needs to continue to be independent from American tech bros.
That is great. Now include satelite images too please.
Public offices would have to work with OSM. Right now they have exclusive deals with Google and actively publish their stuff to Google. Public offices should be publishing to OSM instead, but their citizens don’t give a fuck.
In Germany some public transport networks have their own apps, Maps always used to be the worst option to plan public transport in Berlin for example. So it should be possible, in theory
I get reasonable results from Citymapper and Mapy. HERE doesn’t seem to know that buses exist.
I’m in the Netherlands and had better results from HERE than from Mapy.
I guess it’s worth trying multiple apps for anyone who wants to ditch Google. We also have a local company (9292) who’s whole business is providing public transport information, so you might not even need a map app for this.
Are you talking about stuff like this? https://josm.openstreetmap.de/mapsview?entry=Hesse+DOP20
According to geoportal.hessen.de Hesse DOP20 is already open data and uses DL-DE->Zero-2.0 license. Though I don’t know how it is in different states/nation wide.
https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/zero-2-0
These photos already look better than what Google Earth supplies and they get updated every 2 years.
And technically it surpasses it by far. You might notice that a lot of roofs look a bit weird and pixelated at the edges. They correct the position of high places to counter the camera angle. Generally the angles are also better than what Google supplies.
Nice