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brendynyesterday at 8:34 PM4 repliesview on HN

I use osmand for privacy but I think it just emphasises main roads. In Melbourne it always suggests turning off cemetery road west because it doesn't know it's congested and will get me stuck for 20 minutes. And there are some missing slip roads. And navigation constantly fails to start. I wonder, how difficult is it to make minor edits to the map data?


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gentiletoday at 1:51 AM

To add, a bit complicated, but osm data can be edited with osmium (cpp) or pyosmium (python). Then the edited data can be put into osmandmapcreator to generate the file to use in Osmand. (I used this to route around ALPRs)

pwgyesterday at 8:41 PM

> I wonder, how difficult is it to make minor edits to the map data?

The map data is OpenStreetMap, so you can make edits via the standard OSM methods:

Web: https://ideditor.com/

Local: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/

ndriscolltoday at 12:26 AM

To solve the problem for yourself, you can also long press a road you don't like and select Avoid Road.