I’ve been messing around with Magic Earth and Organic Maps recently.

I immediately noticed that when I type a home address in Magic Earth, the app can take me to the exact house on the block.

However, when I type the same home address in Organic Maps, the app can only take me to the street where the house is. It can find the exact house.

Why is this the case? I thought both Magic Earth and Organic Maps used the same map data behind the scenes…

  • thirdBreakfast@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Look up the same home address on the OpenStreetMap web page, then you’ll know if there’s something magic in Magic Earth or if the issue is with Organic Maps.

    Magic Earth does uses other sources (for example Wikipedia) for location sources, so it’s possible they are using some other database since they’re (Magic Lane’s) business is selling developer tooling for this sort of thing.