I was recently in a different country and two of us were navigating an area that had been built up over the last three years. Only OSM had the streets and buildings. Google was way behind and would have been useless.

So for those people editing, thank you, it actually matters.

If you have OSMand, you would be interested to know about the Live Updates feature, which lets you download newer versions of maps on top of your existing downloaded maps, kind of like a software patch. The feature states that you can download map updates as recent as one hour, but I've personally seen the "patches" reflect the changes as soon as 15-20 minutes into upload.

To view live updates, assuming you didn't heavily customise your OSMand interface:

1. Open the drawer through the hamburger icon button on the bottom left corner of the screen
2. Select 'Maps & Resources' from the drawer
3. Select 'Updates' tab from the tab list below the 'Maps & Resources' title bar on the top of the screen
4. Select 'Live Updates' just below the 'Device Memory' graph
5. Enable the toggle below the 'OsmAnd Live' title bar on the top of the screen
6. Select a map of your choosing among the list displayed under 'Available Maps'
7. Select the 'Update now' button in the bottom sheet to manually update the map and wait for a moment

Once the steps have been followed, you show see something like this below the title of the bottom sheet:

"Updated: Today - . Includes OSM changes made until ."

If you see this, you can go back to the map and verify that the changes have been included without downloading the entire map of the location from scratch. The "patches" are only a few MBs at most and you can set the live updates to happen automatically on an hourly, daily or weekly basis.

I work in emergency services and have been with multiple agencies that utilize OSM due to its increased accuracy and often more up to date data.

In some of our software, it's even one of the base map options and many of us prefer it (both standard OSM layer and the humanitarian layer).

Just wanted to add, when I'm travelling I very much enjoy it when a town has up to date cafes/restaurants. That's why my highest priority when I contributing to OSM is adding cafe/restaurant information.

Wherever you are, your contributions are very well appreciated! I live in a very small town and use OSM. Idk who mapped this place, but having maps away from Google in such a small place makes me happy. Again, wherever you are, you are contributing to a cause that can help free people from big tech monopolies and actually advances human society forever.

You are part of the reason people like me who don't have time to contribute to such efforts can use these apps anyways. Part of the reason adoption is possible. Part of the reason OSM can grow beyond just whatever you're documenting.

Thank you, really. <3

I'm a sporadic/infrequent openstreetmap contributor, too - although I'm not second-guessing these contributions. Useless or not, I do use OSM all the time personally, so reason stands somebody before me did a good job and helped me a lot.

Admittedly, some of the people who use OSM around me use it because at a certain moment I've explained them the advantages. (I live in Europe and people frequently use other modes of transport besides the car, so OSM is legit frequently the better choice.)

THANK YOU! Please keep contributing! :)

It's nowhere close to Street view's quality or quantity, but there is Panoramax

I also use Mapillary, I guess it is similar to Panoramax, cause it has the app and it's well done.

There's Instant Street View, tho it's just I guess a wrapper (???) for Google SV.