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Moving a business' location in OSM? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago by nokturne213@sopuli.xyz to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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I have always been real good about ensuring my business and the surrounding businesses (and other locations) are up to date in Apple, Bing, and Google Maps. I just started looking at OpenStreet Maps and see it has not been updated in over 3 years (and 2 locations ago). I updated the address, but the marker did not move. I do not see a way to move the marker to the correct location.

I am guessing I need to move all of the info (most of it is inaccurate) to where my business is currently located and then mark the old location as closed, or is there a better way to do that?

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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

~~When I try and do that it wants to move the area of the building too, not only the point.~~

Okay, I had to extract the point then I could move the point to my current shop.

[–] uneabeille@en.osm.town 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@nokturne213 You can right click the building and "extract" the shop from the building. You should probably move the address information back onto the building, though.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Got it moved. Waiting on approval now. Thank you.

[–] pietervdvn@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We don't do "approval" here, all changes are live directly. However, it might be that your application of choice simply didn't update yet.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I am using organic maps on iOS. It shows the business that was in my shop two businesses ago (they left in the spring of 2021, while the business before me left in February 2024).

Is there a way to get it to use updated maps?

[–] mcliquid@en.osm.town 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@nokturne213 @pietervdvn @organicmaps updates the map once a month

[–] organicmaps@fosstodon.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@mcliquid @nokturne213 @pietervdvn The goal is to update at least weekly, maybe even more often. More donations = more money to scale the development and server load = more cool features, including more frequent updates.

[–] pietervdvn@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As MC dev, I'm a bit curious on how your data pipeline works. Is there some documentation around for this?

[–] organicmaps@fosstodon.org 1 points 3 months ago

@pietervdvn there is some documentation on GitHub.

[–] pietervdvn@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Check OpenStreetMap (e.g. using MapComplete.org) if the data there is correct. If it is, update Organic Maps or the maps in Organic Maps. (I'm more of an OsmAnd person, so don't know how that is done)