Contribute to Open Street Maps (It's actually fun)
>> Beautiful community driven maps
I've begun moving to add more privacy, or at least some more anonymity, but something that has been a pain point has been navigation.
I don't want to use google. I don't want to use Apple.
After some searching I found out about OpenStreetMaps and fell in love with the concept. It's a massive project that is made by the community and hobby map developers. It even allows multiple entities and apps to pull data from it, to build systems, where the map data is more robust.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like my city is very well developed on OpenStreetMap. Luckily, I found some awesome tools for iOS and Android that create little "missions" or "quests" for you to complete and help make your local map more accurate and better. It's fun, because even if you're just picking up coffee, there's likely a quest a few feet from you that you can complete. If you prefer desktop, you can even start editing straight from their website.
For iOS - Go Map!!
For Android - StreetComplete
For Desktop - OpenStreetMap
If everyone started contributing a little to the open org, we could have a real community driven and run alternative to big tech. I've already added several buildings, labels, addresses, and I plan to add much more so that my local community can have a real fighting chance to leave behind the multitude of privacy breaches by big tech.
/squawk <~
by untitled_operator