So I had to go to a notary office recently and wanted to find some near me on CoMaps… but it was very ineffective because it only found those that had “notary” in the name. There was no such category to be found.

And yet, OSMand has “notary office” category, and many more that don’t show up in CoMaps (and I’m talking searching for categories, not just the list). Does CoMaps only feature some categories, but not all?

I tried also looking at Archeological site as another example and while there were PoIs categorized as such but can’t select the category to see all PoIs from this category on map.

Am I missing something?

  • infeeeee@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 day ago

    OSM “categories” are not mapped one to one with CoMaps categories.

    office=notary is interpreted as a synonym of office=lawyer. You can see this replacement in this file:

    https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/src/branch/main/data/replaced_tags.txt#L96

    So all notary offices are displayed as lawyer’s offices. There are 50k lawyer’s offices in OSM, while only 10k notaries, maybe it would be good time to separate them, maybe there were fewer when support for these tags was added. Taginfo comparison

    Osmand uses a totally different map generation workflow, so it’s expected that you see different things there. Osmand tries to stay close to the upstream OSM tagging shenanigans, while CoMaps aims to be a more user friendly app, you can see it here again.

    but can’t select the category to see all PoIs from this category on map.

    If you search for the name of a subcategory CoMaps will show that in the search result. If you tap on that it will highlight elements with that subcategory. So search for “archaeological site”

    • illi@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      office=notary is interpreted as a synonym of office=lawyer. You can see this replacement in this file:https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/src/branch/main/data/replaced_tags.txt#L96

      Thanks for the explanation and this link. It clears out some stuff. I guess I will have a look through this. While a notary is technically a lawyer, I don’t think it is interchanheable in practice. But I understand the underlying principle at least, though can’t agree with this particular implementation.

      If you search for the name of a subcategory CoMaps will show that in the search result. If you tap on that it will highlight elements with that subcategory. So search for “archaeological site”

      That’s the issue though. If i search for it, there is no such category that comes up that I can click on. And I don’t get why some categories come up and some don’t - and in this case there are places that I can see have this category.

      • infeeeee@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        1 day ago

        It shows me the archaelogical site subcategory, top result:

        I guess the problem is it’s called archAelogical, not archeological. Im not sure which one is the correct spelling