Collecting geodata for google for free is not based. True gigachad maps for Openstreetmap.
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As others are hinting at, there’s really no realistic way to add photos or menus to OSM today. I believe photos will always be out of scope for vanilla OSM, and manually adding menus is too tedious to do at scale even if there were standard tags for it. Perhaps there needs to be a universally accepted secondary repository where people can upload photos related to OSM nodes, and then clients would need to know to check that secondary source when the user is viewing a restaurant’s details.
I hate to say it, but until we have something like that, Google Maps are simply the better (only?) place to have this.
GOOD pictures that are legible!
I once converted the PDF menu to images and uploaded the images to Google Maps.
You sir are a scholar and a gentleman.
It’s a pain to do right. Lighting, positioning. People freaking out over you taking photos.
People freak out when you photograph the menu?
Sometimes.
But why…
CoMpEtItIoN
Don’t most places post a menu by the front door like in a window or box visible to passersby on the sidewalk? What exactly do these other places have to hide?
Are you in Europe? This is a thing I’ve seen in Europe, but not in other countries.
Replace google maps with osm and only then I will agree
Quick remake the meme and repost!
Would do it now myself if I had a sec
On it!
I used to be really into doing Google Maps and uploading reviews, images, and updating stuff. I got a real sense of community out of it for almost no effort.
But now I’m trying to cut back on Google so much, trying to use Organic Maps more often.
I was also always self-conscious about taking pictures of stuff in a restaurant and eventually couldn’t stomach it anymore.
I really liked doing street view and even got a little 360 camera. I used to walk campgrounds doing the whole tour of the camps on Sundays since usually everyone would be gone by then. I always liked being able to see a campground before showing up to know where the good shady spots were. But now google killed the mobile app and got rid of photo tours as an option and only accept video so it killed my whole workflow
My favorites are always the random family vacation pictures accidentally uploaded to gmaps. It always tells a tiny slice of life story about people I will never meet.
Have that feeling sometimes in places like a full market, an airport or visiting a city full of people walking around. I won’t probably see these people again in my life, yet they will go on to their lives doing their things. This is the only moment we will be this close, never to see them again. I’m like, there’s so many people in this whole world all with so many different wants and needs, and I ain’t knowing 1/1000 of them.
Don’t bother looking at the one from 3 years ago… those prices have gone up.
And the one really interesting sounding dish you wanted is no longer served.
Wait what? They cancelled the Sour Patch pizza?
