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English, so the exact string "post office". The file says this, I'm not sure what it means: ``` amenity-post_office|@post en:3Post Office|U+2709|U+1F3E3|U+1F4E8|U+1F4E9|U+1F3E4|U+1F4EF ``` Interestingly the category "Post" searches everything as expected,...

Additionally, exit numbers on motorways. A simple "take exit 54" greatly reduces the difficulty of using a GPS app, at least in America where every significant exit is consistently numbered...

I just did a deep dive on debugging why navigating highways is so awful for me with OSM (OrganicMaps and OsmAnd), and it turns out that it boils down to...

@biodranik I know @1ec5 has been doing a ton of good work in this area and is also heavily involved in American OSM UI projects: https://github.com/1ec5/rebusurance Even MapFactor has very...

@biodranik what do you consider to be "all necessary OSM tags?" at first I thought all of my area was lacking tagging, but it turns out that all mobile apps...

@biodranik it only took a month for me to compile the GPX and screenshots into a usable format! Here you go. It's a slideshow with street imagery, OsmAnd screenshots, and...

@suhridkhan @AverageHelper I find it most useful to know in how many miles I'll have to make a major turn or exit (and not just the "oopsie the road split...

I noticed a "bug" which prevents `highway=motorway_junction` nodes from displaying their exit number in our latest OrganicMaps despite having a `ref` -- it appears that exit numbers are only displayed...