I'm addicted to Streetcomplete. I'm 20.000+ edits in. I make about 100 with ease on my commute to work.
You are a hero
I installed it. Judging by the mass of blank info, I guess I'm the only person around here using it lol. 😳
I became nr 10 or so in my country just by adding nearly everything SC can ask in ... a 10 block radius around my house.😁
I am never getting lost in my own neighborhood again!! (Me irl)
It needs an iOS app
iOS apps generally require a $100 yearly fee to post to the app store and if they submitted a waiver as a nonprofit apple would probably take years to accept it.
Also apple has a tendency to quietly kill and/or stall small apps that pose a threat to features they incorporate into their os from what I've heard.
Ugh yeah the small 4-person worker cooperative I'm part of has been trying to get Apple to let us enroll in their developer program for literally weeks now. Every time we clear some other nonsense requirement, there's a new one right behind it; and we haven't even gotten to the "pay $100 for the privilege of undergoing this process" part yet.
I can't believe Apple ever managed to build an application ecosystem around their products when they are so unfriendly to developers.
Check out Go Map!!, it's also open source and has a similar feature to StreetComplete with its quests, at least from what I've heard about how StreetComplete works.
once you complete every quest on your commute, what do you do?
parallel streets ✅
and then?
You change your job to another location :)
Just did around 150 contributions, looks fun so I might complete more quests tomorrow
Is there an open street map based map app that shows live traffic? I'm trying to get my grandfather to switch to open source, and he says it's the one feature he needs.
MagicEarth has got a live traffic layer for you.
Magic earth is great
No, unfortunately not. Getting traffic data would mean users volunteering to share location data, would need a centralized system to process everything, and would need a critical mass of users sharing said data to be anywhere near useful. The other possibility would be to pay for data from a provider like Google under an enterprise license that doesn't require sharing data back, but I don't know if that is even an option.
For now, I use both on my phone. I use OSM when biking or walking, I use Google Maps when driving, and I use my local transit web app when taking transit. I plan to switch my Pixel phone to GrapheneOS and to sandbox Google services that I still need. That being said, the ultimate way around needing traffic information is to try to live in places and in such a way that driving is not very necessary, but I know that is a huge ask for a lot of people.
EDIT: To be clear, MagicEarth does have live traffic as @Schlemmy@lemmy.ml pointed out and is based on OSM, but is not itself open source.
time for some kind of anonymizing location data sharing service, peer to peer or federated protocol? that might be interesting, or sketchy, not sure which.
kind of like Pokémon Go but you are actually making an impact
I caught the whole first generation + my favorite Celebi. How's that for an impact?
I use Organic maps, and it's easy to add and edit places with.
MapComplete is more about tagging.
I didn´t realize editing OSM is so easy. I just logged in, did a short tutorial and fixed one intersection where a week ago the app told to do an illegal turn. Awesome!
Solid recommendation! "Contribute missing data" sounds like a chore, but this app is super fun
There is a "road" near my house in OSM that does not exist and OSM is always trying to route me though it, which is very annoying. Is there any way to mark them for removal? StreetComplete doesn't seem to have that capability.
You can always long press on a problematic place and leave a freeform note. A more experienced mapper can then fix the issue.
I'm contributing at my level. But, when I see all the errors, issues and missing object around me, it's a full time job for at least one months.
Yeah. When I started in 2007 my area was a white canvas. Now we're mapping fences around tree plantations. It's a marathon, not a race.
Street complete is amazing. I've been obsessed with it for a couple years. I never would have made hundreds of OSM submissions without it. Whenever I'm bored, sitting in some place waiting, instead of doom scrolling, I pull out up and see if there is anything I can contribute to the area
Maps.me and organicsmaps apps are great too to edit osm. You can also replace google maps and its navigator which is great because if you don't find something on maps.me, you can immediately add it.
I don't really know or use Open Street Map, so I wonder:
Can everyone just manipulate the map data? Is there some sort of control mechanism or is it easy to incorporate fake data?
I'm asking because this seems to be a really fallible concept, where people with malicious intents would have an easy way to disturb Open Street Map.
Yes, but similar to Wikipedia (where the same holds true) the forces fo good and honest seem to prevail.
I recently contributed a business change and got a message a few hours later that I had made a mistake and a small explanation on how to fix it.
This probably depends on the area, but at least changes in my area seem to be monitored by good people.
It is a wiki. While anyone can add fake data, there are monitoring tools to make sure that if someone does that, others will notice and remove it again.
I've was doing the same until yesterday, then I found StreetComplete. Since then, it's so much easier to enter addresses. So much easier to add addresses while out walking than to carry a notepad or memorize numbers.
Very glad I saw this. I've been getting increasingly fed up with Google Maps. Their map in my area is full of annoying errors, such as routing you through roads that haven't existed for a decade, or along private roads that are not open to the public. And no matter how many times I report them, nothing ever gets fixed. Going to give OSM a try and hopefully make the switch for good. Already saw that the map in my area is in much better shape than Google's.
Oh heck yea! My neighborhood is better mapped on OSM than Google Maps even now! Very fulfilling to see.
My shed is mapped in OSM.
Meanwhile Google maps has not got the shed and has the entirety of my property about 10 ft east of its actual location. Essentially terraced up to a neighbouring property even though it's not connected to that property and there is an alleyway.
But I suppose I could say that doesn't really matter for street navigation, which is what Google maps is actually for.
This is my pastime whenever I don't have anything to do online. It's fun to point something on OSM and remembering the establishments you've walkthrough.
Personally I think a great combo is mapping stuff out with the phone where you can survey the place and have GPS, and then sending those changes to a computer to polish in JOSM if needed (e.g. when you're building new ways and want to make their geometry nicer) which is a lot more powerful editor and more comfortable than doing it on a touchscreen.
But whichever editor you prefer, I concur that mapping is very fun and also useful. :)
(And a lot more straight forward than trying to make a change in Apple or especially Google Maps...)
Do you need an account?
As far as I am aware, yes.
A OSM account, yes. You can join with OpenID if you want.
This is a blast, thanks for the recommendation
I just started using it but I made a mistake on one of my submissions. Is there any way to undo or edit a submission made in the app?
Edit: There is an undo button on the bottom left in the app.
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