A crowd-sourced review service for OpenStreetMap
community.openstreetmap.org
Hi folks, As someone who’s been trying to move away from Google Maps, one thing I really struggled with was the lack of user reviews for places, which is a problem in all major OSM-based apps that I’ve tried: Organic Maps / CoMaps, and OsmAnd. I rely on reviews to guage how good a place is, which helps me avoid bad ones and choose one between many results returned in a search. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been thinking about founding a new free and open-source service for crowd-sourced u...
  • illusionist@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

    Reviews are even a problem on google. I wouldn’t trust a review that I haven’t written.

    It’s missing images. Shiny images.

    • mistermodal@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      I think it would be kind of a nightmare, but I am assuming it would bring the vibe of city subreddits or nextdoor in the same way lemmy/mastodon/misskey bring reddit/bluechecks/japan twitter

  • Integrate777English
    3·
    6 days ago

    Osm has no capacity to handle the influx of problems with reviews. It’s open source, it doesn’t stop anyone from building their own commercial review service on top of OSM. They will be responsible for dealing with the mess that will inevitably arrive and keep it away from OSM itself.

    OSM does maps, and does it well, and allows others to build on top of it. That’s all it needs to do.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      lib.reviews seems to be just a five-star rating and a text box. We desperately need an open source review platform, but it needs to be simple, just a like/dislike, a question and answer tips box, ands taggable categories like foursquare had.

      I really miss foursquare, and am convinced google and yelp killed it. I could go to any city in the western hemisphere, filter by vegetarian/vegan friendly, and always get incredible recommendations. Google and yelp by comparison are entirely gamed.