StreetComplete: An app for those who want to contribute to OpenStreetMap
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Help to improve the OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete!
This app finds incomplete and extendable data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as markers. Each of those is solvable by answering a simple question to complete the info on site.
The info you enter is then directly added to the OpenStreetMap in your name, without the need to use another editor.
Really useful and fun to use. Unfortunately I'm nearly done with all tasks in my region.
You can always add more (harder) tasks that are disabled by default. That's what I do for regions where there aren't enough tasks (that I'm interested in)
There's always the the "advanced" version of StreetComplete: SCEE.
Just discovered it, great to, thank you!!
thank you sir for your hard work
Mapping with this app is a lot of fun! Sometimes I just go for a walk and open up StreetComplete to see if I can add some small contributions, like the opening hours of some nearby establishment or whether a given entity is still at the location.
You can also customize what kind of questions are shown so you can skip on things you may not like.
An alternative for iOS is “Go Map!!”.
Thank you!
Also like that the iOS app privacy section says:
Data Not Collected The developer does not collect any data from this app
You don't see that every day!
Unfortunately, it’s not available in my country :/
Nice one!
Does this have the same "tell us more about this place please" functionality or does it just let you make edits?
It asks you about the road type, house numbers etc.
The slightly more hardcore version of r/place.
r/place but is really a place in a map
Why does fdroid say that it promotes or depends on non-free networkl service?
f-droid defines it as
https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/#NonFreeNet
I asked the developer Tobias Zwick the exact same question. His reply (in german, can anyone summarize it in english?):
I thought it was awesome he took the time to answer in such detail and startet support him on liberapay: Tobias Zwick
Somewhat shortened translation:
Perfect, thank you!
Maybe the image hosting of the dev for notes
I asked the developer Tobias Zwick the exact same question. His reply (in german, can anyone summarize it in english?):
I thought it was awesome he took the time to answer in such detail and startet support him on liberapay: Tobias Zwick
I asked the developer Tobias Zwick the exact same question. His reply (in german, can anyone summarize it in english?):
I thought it was awesome he took the time to answer in such detail and startet support him on liberapay: Tobias Zwick
I asked the developer Tobias Zwick the exact same question. His reply (in german, can anyone summarize it in english?):
I thought it was awesome he took the time to answer in such detail and startet support him on liberapay: Tobias Zwick
SCEE is described as StreetComplete for advanced users. Does anyone have experience with this?
I use both versions actively, the main differences of SCEE compared to StreetComplete are the addtion of more obscure questions (for example building and roof colors, species/genus of trees), allowing direct editing of tags and disabling the gamification/statistics.
It's exactly as it says. SCEE comes without handholding which means should know what you do.
It's better to follow a guide on mapping and osm in general and after that you can use it without holding back.
this app showed me how much i don't know from my neighbourhood. It's really fun.
it even allows you to put notes on things the app doesn't give you an edit choice by default. I let someone know a street name was outdated that way.
It's super fun! I learned about this recently. This and geocaching really adds motivation for long walks.
even the mundane is enjoyable, today i went grocery shopping and just added the schedules of the stores I went in.
@original_reader great app! I love the idea of OpenStreetMap and like contributing, and this makes it super easy. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for sharing! This should be fun to contribute to while riding my electric unicycle.
Hijacking the thread:
You are all welcome on !openstreetmap@lemmy.ml to discuss anyting OpenStreetMap-related
Also have a look to https://mapcomplete.osm.be - this one works on mobile and desktop and has many thematic maps (e.g. one for shops, one for cycling stuff, one for toilets) and you can improve the data there as well + add images.
Thank you for sharing this.
Cool I loved it when Google Maps allowed contributing stuff. There are so many little annoyances where you get incorrect directions that could be fixed so easily by crowd sourcing, but are too small to fix otherwise.
Cool, I'm looking forward to using this after I move to a new city next week. It will hopefully help with discovering the neighborhood and surrounding area
I have found convenience store within 5 minutes walking distance from my house thanks to StreetComplete. I had solved most of the tasks nearby, so I took a small detour on my way home and found this shop there that I had no idea existed. At that stage I was living in the area for years.
Such a neat app!
This is perfect! I've been meaning to get into contributing to OSM in my area, and this makes that very easy. I will be heading out once the rain stops to test this.
Thank you! Did not know about this app ❤️
How open is this? Can anybody download the data that is collected? Or is this like Waze, which did something similar, then just sold out to Google?
The only thing I want to say is "OpenStreetMap got the FSF award in 2018".
As the same openstreetmap site say it's the wikipedia of maps, run by the community and some corporations like meta, Microsoft and Apple.
And some people, like me, thanks to microg use the data for geocoding and don't rely on google for that.
OpenStreetMap has been going for almost 20 years now. It's a very well known open map data platform. Like Wikipedia, anyone can edit OSM map data, and all of the data is freely available for anyone to use.
Its used by Bing and Apple, so they would for sure piss off some people selling out. That being said I have no clue how its run, God pray it isnt as "open" as openai
Edit: nevermind, heres their license, doesn't look too bad
Nice. I'll participate whenever I have some time.
That's great, thanks for sharing this!
I discovered the app a few weeks ago and man, am I thrilled. I totally grinded it out too. Above all, I find the function for measuring the width of the street very elegant
Anything for iOS?
This was posted earlier.
Oh wow OH WOW I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes!!!!!