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I’m a contributor to OpenStreetMap, but what I find very lacking is the POI data It’s only updated if there’s someone like me in the local area, or if it’s a tourist destination. But even then it can be sparse (eg just visited Merida, Bacalar and Valladolid in Mexico), and it’s worse in “non-western” countries Tellingly, Overture Maps that use OSM for the street data to not use the POI data. A lot of people pointed out that the POI data of Overture had mediocre quality. While that is true, they do at least have coverage in places OSM do not. If you know the name of the place you can at least find it I’m not sure how this can become better, I’d think that a prerequisite would be that corporate users like Grab, DiDi, Uber start contributing But that may not happen as they are not allowed to combine datasets [1]. Hence you have a chicken and

I installed awscli and tried the command from the article mkdir places/ aws s3 cp --recursive 's3://overturemaps-us-west-2/release/2023-07-26-alpha.0/theme=places/' places/ but it gave me: fatal error: Unable to locate credentials Found working instructions at https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data/blob/main/README.md#how... mkdir overturemaps/ aws s3 cp --region us-west-2 --no-sign-request --recursive s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/release/2023-07-26-alpha.0/ overturemaps/ This will download all of the overture maps data, but to me that is all the better :) Completed 33.4 GiB/~42.5 GiB (28.1 MiB/s) with ~13 file(s) remaining (calculating...)

The GitHub repo is here; https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data -- Licenses look super permissive - I'm not that familiar with the state of Open Mapping but the GERS idea looks great too. https://docs.overturemaps.org/gers/