I tend to use maps from a search browser and it suddenly occurred to me that if the search engine I used defaulted to open street maps I would use it. Do any search engines default map searches to open street maps?
@HubertManne Qwant.com uses “qwant maps”, which is basically OpenStreetMap in a different branding.
DuckDuckGo has Apple Maps as provider, which is partially based on OSM (but, meh). However, the bang!osmwill take you to OpenStreetMap (and!wosmbrings you to the OSM-wiki)!osmwalso brings you to the wiki!thank you. I am going with this at least initially. Found a firefox addon to add it to toolbar search too.
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i recently learned on my android phone that after i disabled the default mapping app [google “maps”] it gave me the option to open maps from websites and other apps in one of the different mapping apps i had installed at the time: StreetComplete, Organic Maps [both OSM-based] and Randomnautica [which defaults to and re-enabled google “maps”] and gave options to open once in app chosen or to use it every time.
i am not sure if you use android, this is moot on desktop and others. commenting with the hope it might help someone someday. i hope this post isn’t too old to be commenting on.
I go by the motto that a post is never to old to be commented on. I sorta hated with some forums where topics would get auto locked or something due to age.
thank you. I am going with this at least initially. Found a firefox addon to add it to toolbar search too.
