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by lovelearning 4326 days ago
Can you elaborate what you are looking for? I'm exploring OSM development right now, and I'd love to implement something that is missing elsewhere.
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Mostly I want it to be smarter. More automatic. I know that's a very hard problem.

As an example, I used YourNavigation.org. I zoomed in on my rough location, containing St Paul and Minneapolis. I typed my office's street address into the side bar thingy, hit enter, and... ended up in California. Whoops.

Okay, type in the city name too, and it found the right place. Great! Now as my destination, I typed in my home address, including the city name. Not found. Dammit, I'm going back to Google Maps. (Actually, I tried 4 or 5 variations. Turned out it wanted "W Streetname Ave", not "Streetname Ave W", even though that's what it says on our street signs.)

Thank you for the detailed reply.