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Thanks to FOSS United I’ve been doing a lot of #OSM talks and workshops, but I’m unsure if it’s having the intended effect. Does spreading awareness about #OpenStreetMap really help if the clients aren’t as good as Google Maps? If people aren’t using it, will they really contribute? We need polished apps that provide everything people expect from Google Maps… Render the legal boundaries of India, so it’s actually legal to use and distribute them. (Try explaining that to the CoMaps community and watch the thoughtless downvotes fly in - see CoMaps issue 2964) Integrate https://closures.osm.ch/ , so that traffic information - by far the most widely-requested feature - is finally provided. Integrate https://transitous.org/ for static and realtime public transport routes. Integrate Panoramax and Wikimedia Commons photos. Integrate Mangrove Reviews for ratings, reviews, and photos. Integrate satellite imagery. Be available in Indian languages. Make it easy to add missing details, similar to MapComplete. (Cartes.app seems like the best starting point.) We also need a cooperative organization (like @prav is for XMPP) to provide a brand name and to allow users to control development.