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  • @gandalf_der_12te it’s quite a common misconception that OpenStreetMap is a map, and arguably its name and the website showing a map don’t really help there.

    But it really is just a database of coordinates and tags that describe features found and those coordinates. You can use this database to generate maps, and there are several projects that do this.

    Another common misconception is that what Google and other big players call “Satellite” view or images is rarely 1/2