I hate big shopping malls. That's why I always need to find the best way to the business and back. #Mapycz and #GoogleMaps are useless for that. POIs are missing, wrongly placed or grouped in the middle of the mall.
But some shopping malls in #Brno are so well mapped in #OpenStreetMap that it can navigate me right to the business. And that even includes changing floors and using escalators.
@sesivany that's an unfortunate reality right now. Often you have a couple of areas that are mapped extremely well just because someone passes their often or lives there. But poi's is def the biggest pain point of osm yeah
@thibaultmol @sesivany if osm establishes as a good data source, companies could update their poi themselves. Same as now many companies are pushing their record to google maps.
@thibaultmol POIs are hard. The more I look into them, the more I see no one gets them right. E.g. Meta and Foursquare made their POI databases freely available, but no one dares to import them into OSM because the data is so low quality.
OSM has at least some areas where they are nearly perfectly mapped.
@sesivany In my neighbourhood I am trying to add indoor details to shopping malls, so that individual rooms can be rendered floor by floor.
I hope OsmAnd will implement an indoor view to maps one day.
@stepan This is really cool! The only thing that is holding me from spending time on it as well is that most map apps can't render it. :/
@sesivany I once spent good amount of time trying to find a shop in an OC that was there in MapyCZ but I couldn't find it. Then I realized there are these touch screens every 50 meters that have an updated map with all shops and search with navigation :)
@sesivany https://www.mappedin.com/ is a company that specializes in indoor maps. There is a Minds Behind Maps podcast about their origin story.
They started with malls, which a lot of times had very bad maps. They are a #MapLibre sponsor too.