Oh yeah, I totally agree that openstreetmap.org is mainly useful for mappers and for, uh, the kind of “browsing the map” that you’d do flipping through an atlas, and that this could be made clearer.

Alternatives are an issue, though. For a long time, whenever I wanted to look up a place in my browser, I either looked it up on my phone, which is bad for my wrists, or I… went to openstreetmap.org and opened the edit mode so I could click all the POIs. Is it comfortable? no. Does it make sense? no. But I hadn’t found a usable-to-me OSM-based thing for that purpose yet. I knew sites like https://www.openstreetbrowser.org, but those are a bit complicated, too.

Recently, however, I found something that works for me, it’s Qwant Maps: https://www.qwant.com/maps/ I can click a POI and get all the info, I can link people to places without having to send them the coordinates, I’m happy.