GOOD pictures that are legible!
I once converted the PDF menu to images and uploaded the images to Google Maps.
It’s a pain to do right. Lighting, positioning. People freaking out over you taking photos.
Collecting geodata for google for free is not based. True gigachad maps for Openstreetmap.
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As others are hinting at, there’s really no realistic way to add photos or menus to OSM today. I believe photos will always be out of scope for vanilla OSM, and manually adding menus is too tedious to do at scale even if there were standard tags for it. Perhaps there needs to be a universally accepted secondary repository where people can upload photos related to OSM nodes, and then clients would need to know to check that secondary source when the user is viewing a restaurant’s details.
I hate to say it, but until we have something like that, Google Maps are simply the better (only?) place to have this.
Don’t bother looking at the one from 3 years ago… those prices have gone up.
And the one really interesting sounding dish you wanted is no longer served.
I used to be really into doing Google Maps and uploading reviews, images, and updating stuff. I got a real sense of community out of it for almost no effort.
But now I’m trying to cut back on Google so much, trying to use Organic Maps more often.
I was also always self-conscious about taking pictures of stuff in a restaurant and eventually couldn’t stomach it anymore.
I really liked doing street view and even got a little 360 camera. I used to walk campgrounds doing the whole tour of the camps on Sundays since usually everyone would be gone by then. I always liked being able to see a campground before showing up to know where the good shady spots were. But now google killed the mobile app and got rid of photo tours as an option and only accept video so it killed my whole workflow
My favorites are always the random family vacation pictures accidentally uploaded to gmaps. It always tells a tiny slice of life story about people I will never meet.
Have that feeling sometimes in places like a full market, an airport or visiting a city full of people walking around. I won’t probably see these people again in my life, yet they will go on to their lives doing their things. This is the only moment we will be this close, never to see them again. I’m like, there’s so many people in this whole world all with so many different wants and needs, and I ain’t knowing 1/1000 of them.
Or, interesting in the opposite direction, I was once on vacation in another country over summer break during elementary school years, visiting a tourist site of some sort, and saw one of my classmates there. Parents didn’t coordinate plans or even share them, just a random coincidence that we happened to not only go to the same general area at the same time, not only the same specific tourist location in an area that had a bunch of options, but ended up on the same section of path at the same time.
Makes me wonder how many other times I’ve randomly been even just an hour away from someone else I knew in an area neither of us were often in.
