Happy 19th birthday to Open Street Map. It's hard to underestimate the importance of this open source project. Practically every mapping company - TomTom, Apple, Meta, Microsoft & more - contribute to OSM and provide a strong alternative to the commercially driven Google Maps that could die at any time if Google decide it's not profitable enough. OSM is also the starting point for some great projects. I use an app called Water-Map regularly. It collects the "amenity=drinking_water" objects in OSM and puts them on a nice map so I can find somewhere to get some delicious free water when I am thirsty. The "amenity=charging_station" object is another useful one that apps like A Better Route Planner take and make an easy way to plan EV road trips with. Thanks Open Street Map and the lovely contributors who feed it data! By the way, StreetComplete is an Android app that makes it fan and easy to contribute to OSM.
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