Nielso<p>So for some reason I'd like to know how long it takes to drive from Bayreuth to Cologne and I want to use alternatives to <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/GoogleMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleMaps</span></a> in <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/osmapp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>osmapp</span></a> doesn't find Bayreuth even.</p><p><a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/MapCarta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MapCarta</span></a> does better, but doesn't know Köln, the German name of Cologne. Think normal users, not nerds – they won't know the English names of these German cities that have English names, at least not of smaller ones.</p><p><a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a>.de can do it.</p><p>However, openstreetmap.de does not have any sweet scraped meta data such as opening hours of places, or photos.</p><p> It's going to be a long way to a good Google Maps replacement.</p>