nostr:npub1arkn0xxxll4llgy9qxkrncn3vc4l69s0dz8ef3zadykcwe7ax3dqrrh43w on the Nostr Apps 201 talk, you referred to go.yondar.me as ‘Google Maps without Google’. What’s the difference in vision behind Yondar compared to OpenStreetMap?
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Yondar's purpose is to seamlessly connect people and places. Typically if a business owner wants to be found on a map, they need to go through Google. With Yondar, they can publish their business on nostr and own that business listing cryptographically with their private key. Enabling businesses to have better visibility on nostr will be good for nostr.
There are many more features on the roadmap for Yondar that will make it far, fast more than just a map. The old Yondar at https://yondar.me has augmented reality and private realtime location sharing built in; these features are coming to Go Yondar as soon as possible.
This will allow friends to find each other, their favorite places, and new places all via augmented reality navigation.
Of course, I must also mention that the already thriving Yondar dev community at t.me/yondarme is brimming with ideas beyond what I orthogonal envisioned and thanks to #nostrocket anyone can get paid for pushing Yondar forward with new ideas and features that drive adoption or monetization.
I appreciate your question and hope that this quick response gives you a vision for what I hope to accomplish with Yondar! 😄🤙
I just tried the existing Yondar. Doesn't seem to work on my phone. Somewhat disappointing. I get locked up in the compass setting screen, no matter how far I walk.😳
Sorry about that! I would love to help you with that. Can you send me a DM?
Thanks for the reply. Just a bit more interested why you didn’t build on top of OSM let your network interact with the existing points of interest rather than generate everything again from scratch.
Everything you see on the map is actually from OSM except the places people create. The purpose of having places outside of OSM is that they are verifiably owned and controlled exclusively by the owner's private key and stored on nostr. There is no need for an individual to depend on a community-edited OSM database. You can't truly own a place if it's in OSM; anyone else can edit it.
I want to allow people to publish not only real places but favorite places, personal places, etc. Not all of these belong in the OSM database.
However, I see the value of OSM and it may make sense to have a feature where people can cross-publish their place into OSM. I appreciate the questions. 👾👍