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.
The slightly more hardcore version of r/place.
r/place but is really a place in a map
SCEE is described as StreetComplete for advanced users. Does anyone have experience with this?
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.
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.
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Yeah, it’s made more for refining and confirming details than for adding entirely new objects.
When I want to add something that’s not on the map yet, I either add a note in StreetComplete and come back to it later on my computer, or I add it using Vespucci. (I’ve been known to add items using Vespucci, then reload the data on StreetComplete so I can fill in details that aren’t in the presets and that I can’t remember how to tag manually!)
Saved you a search.
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.
Thank you for sharing this.
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.
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
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.
Oh wow OH WOW I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS!!! Yes!!!
Anything for iOS?
Nice. I’ll participate whenever I have some time.
Thanks for sharing! This should be fun to contribute to while riding my electric unicycle.
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!
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.
