A federated internet archive, I'm wondering whether I should build it myself. With so many journalists being banned for reporting the gaza genocide we need more ways to combat censorship.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

There are some people working on this and proposing some options.

IMO, as someone who regularly edits OSM, the maps need much more info and basic editing before reviews. I had to add many of my fave restaurants. Forget about reviews when the restaurants aren't even on there. Just saying. Maybe as it gets more users.

(Tangent: I was just in a foreign country where I didn't have much mobile data. But I had downloaded OSM maps beforehand and made edits beforehand for my trip. The only downside is that OSMand doesn't update their maps very often in some places so I almost never got to use all my edits. Overall though the offline maps were very helpful for navigation, etc.)

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] enchantedgoldapple@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

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:

Open the drawer through the hamburger icon button on the bottom left corner of the screen
Select 'Maps & Resources' from the drawer
Select 'Updates' tab from the tab list below the 'Maps & Resources' title bar on the top of the screen
Select 'Live Updates' just below the 'Device Memory' graph
Enable the toggle below the 'OsmAnd Live' title bar on the top of the screen
Select a map of your choosing among the list displayed under 'Available Maps'
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.