#streetcomplete — Public Fediverse posts

@mormund @z428 @mailbox_org Being in a regional town, I've been enjoying doing just this with #CoMaps as my default map app, #StreetComplete for editing the odd tag, and #Vespucci to add missing points of interest, ways and so on. If I manage to get another few folk interested locally I'm sure we could probably keep up with the pace of change out here 😅 #OpenStreetMap #regionalaustralia

I should contribute to #OpenStreetMap more often. It's so fun to do, especially with apps like #StreetComplete or #Vespucci. And it's honestly pretty cool to see your name somewhere in a public database, knowing you contributed something.

My doctor's appointment today was way quicker than expected, so I took some time to map details along the Lister Meile, one of Hannover's busy shopping streets. Given how busy this area is, there's a fascinating amount of details missing.

Random observations I made:

• I create a lot of changesets, even with Every Door. That's because I hit the upload button so often, and that's to be able to immediately take over in another app. I'm just switching all the time.

• I will go out of my way to find out if a place accepts credit cards for example, as long as I don't need to speak to people. Instead of just asking, I will gladly go inside and inspect their card terminal, hoping that nobody will notice. I must look like a criminal.

#openstreetmap #osm #whatdidyoudo #vespucci #StreetComplete #everydoor #survey #Hannover

@alainmi11
Possibilité de contribuer rapidement et simplement, depuis son téléphone grâce à l'application #streetcomplete
https://f-droid.org/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete
Ou son fork #scee
https://f-droid.org/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete.expert
Plus complet, mais aussi plus long à prendre en main, #vespucci .
https://f-droid.org/packages/de.blau.android

#osm

#openstreetmap (OSM) ist das #wikipedia für räumliche Daten. Es gibt #Android -Anwendungen für alle Bedarfe und Vorlieben, um auf Basis von OSM-Daten zu navigieren:

- Von #CoMaps für schnell & übersichtlich,
- bis #osmand für komplex & fortgeschritten (Pisten und Loipen, yeah 😍).

Next level: selbst Daten anreichern und zur digitalen Allmende beitragen:

- Von #streetcomplete für simpel & gamifiziert,
- bis #vespucci für heimliche Geodäten 😅

#diday #didit

Which iPhone apps would you recommend for (basic) #OSM editing? Looking for something similar as #StreetComplete and #Vespucci.

I would like to become an #OpenStreetMap pro. Can anyone recommend me an #OSM mapping course? I would prefer a hands on video course but am open to other sources as well, as long as it teaches me the mapping basics. Currently, I am mostly updating existing business information and other information of already existing assets with #streetcomplete and #vespucci

@futzle Somebody else mapped my dwelling in #OpenStreetMap 😢

When I decide to move, my priority will definitely be to find the area where my new dwelling is NOT mapped in OpenStreetMap.

That way, I'll have a plenty of fun mapping out my new undermapped neighborhood in all the details with #JOSM, #Vespucci and #StreetComplete / #SCEE 😄

@uneabeille That's something I'd love to do too!

I just struggle with the following specifically:

First of all, POIs are simple enough to work with for me. A POI is a single point on a map with a type and properties defined by their type. I can easily add or edit them using #CoMaps, #StreetComplete or, if I'm feeling particularly brave, even #Vespucci.

But buildings, paths and such I don't get yet. I don't really understand boundaries, relations, nodes, polygons, vectors, whatever. That's why I'm not confident enough to make non-trivial contributions.

For example, how do we canonically actually handle businesses? Is a business a POI placed on top of its building polygon on the map? Is the POI supposed to be placed in the middle of the building, or where the entrance is?

Where should information about the business go, as in, name, contact info, opening hours and such? Is the building polygon itself supposed to be tagged as, say, a restaurant? Is a POI on top of the building supposed to hold all the business information? How do we connect the POI to the building it is inside of, data-wise?

I mean, I can always look into the wiki to read the documentation. But usually, the actual implentation of my area's mapping is completely different from the documented way to do it. We have buildings tagged as restaurants, POIs slapped on top of buildings.

Therefore, there's a lot of wrong or missing data basically everywhere here.

Deprecated properties and tags, misused property values, missing or partial data, wrong data, imprecise data. Standards naturally evolve way faster than map data does.

It's so much that it sometimes feels a little pointless to clean up my local area.

Does it really matter to anyone at all if I spend weeks making sure that my neighbourhood's buildings are all correctly tagged with type, height and roof colour? That every single garden appears on OSM, even when no other garden is actually mapped in my entire city, and even some major public parks are mistagged, no bicycle lanes are mapped, and nearly no road has a surface property?

Do I really tangibly help out a single cyclist when I spend a whole day tagging cycle paths and cycle path types, surfaces and widths, when no navigation app actually makes use of any of that data, and the rest of my city is untagged?

In the end, I always arrive at the same somewhat depressing conclusion: all the data in the world is only useful if someone's making use of it.

No matter how meticulously we micro-map every detail of pedestrian infrastructure, there is no navigation app that lets us navigate to the closest bench with a backrest.

Or that navigates me only through wide, well-lit bicycle paths. Or that actually does anything with the type or location of trees in our local park.

That's the demotivating part of #OpenStreetMap for me. All that detailed data, but no practical application to make it useful. I don't feel like I'm making a difference.

It's kind of like rewriting your website to consist solely of perfect, semantic HTML. Tagging every date with <time>, every <address>, every <abbr>eviation. It's machine readable in theory, but since no browser does anything with all that data, it's completely useless.

RE: https://mementomori.social/@levi/115334697961474628

2. Streetcomplete and #Openstreetmaps

On the topic of #geolocation , there's another FOSS project that relies on community submissions to build a privacy preserving map

let's face it, Google Maps is the most solid, polished and convenient maps app out there, it offers detailed business listings, phone numbers, open hours, photos and reviews, Streetview (which OSM lacks), live traffic, routing algorithms with turn by turn navigation.. Etc.

But as it's the case with proprietary software, convenience comes at a cost, a cost that no one can afford, loss of privacy.

Most people fail to recognize how sensitive location data is, how it's used against them and how it can be abused in the future.

if I ask.. where were you on February 9, 2012, at 3 o'clock? you have no clue, you can't even remember what you had for dinner last night! me too :-) our brains can't recall events with time and location with such great precision, if you can.. you must be Charles Xavier from X-Men :-P

But you know who can remember? Google. the Ad company profiles individuals by tracking queries, routes, and interactions, it records your movements by a feature called location history which is turned on by default, even when you don't use the app, your movements are still logged, heck.. even if you turn off location history altogether, Google keeps on tracking you.. this should tell you how much valuable location data is for E-Corp, where you work or study, what you're planning to buy, where you go for entrainment.. etc. all used to create a profile so that the surveillance machine can target you with ads..

The brightside is that we don't have to use a surveillance tool like Google Maps, OrganicMaps is a free and open source software that respects your privacy, does not collect or transmit your location, search history, or usage data and it encourages you to use it offline by letting you know that you have to download maps for your area.

Organic Maps uses OpenStreeMaps which is also free software, but as I mentioned it's not as rich as Google Maps in terms of data. :-(

Which brings us to Streetcomplete, a FOSS android app designed to make contributing to OpenStreetMap easy. It's really like a real life game and I find it fun, It uses a simple question and answer interface to gather missing OpenStreeMaps details like: surface types of paths, opening hours of shops, speed limits.. etc

Submitted data will appear on OpenStreeMaps, so all users of apps like @organicmaps and @CoMaps can benefit from :-)

If you're interested in volunteering to help us make a #freedom map so we don't live our lives under the constant surveillance of #bigbrother Google, check out the following links:

- https://streetcomplete.app/
- https://www.openstreetmap.org
- https://organicmaps.app
- https://www.comaps.app/

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