My kind of heroes. People who seek to better the world without seeking attention while doing it.
And there's an app to help contributing to openstreetmap.
Here's a link to it on f-droid...
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Also OpenDoor. Doesn't look as pretty but you if you read a bit about tags on the osm wiki you can add and edit a lot in this app
Oh, cool. Need to check it. I never heard of it before.
OpenDoor. Noted. Thanks.
They were thinking of EveryDoor. There's also MapComplete, a bit more niche- focused on deep diving in specific themes without having to learn all the specific tagging for that topic.
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StreetComplete... Global Rank: #1567 Local Rank: #131 Days Active: 370
You're welcome ๐
Errr global rank #5770 checking in. To be fair I'm just not out a lot.
#6002 here, working on filling up my entity village with 2k pop โ Also usually fill during walks on trips
#4412 here... Damn... We could hold a community meeting on Lemmy...
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@Cyber Global rank of #303 on StreetComplete. I've been doing this for years. It's a passion.
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Thatโs so cool they have ranks!
Yeah, you get Quests and "unlock" things - which is mostly links to sites that use OSM data for interesting things.
It's fun for a bit, but I'm glad that after a while you don't see them anymore...
I'm happy just recording the opening times for a decent friendly restaurant... and the name of a bustop... and house numbers... and street lighting... and...
Edit: Oh and I've covered 7 countries by the look of it. Canada and EU mostly...
i spent my summer last year filling all the street names on a caribbean island i was going on holiday in december, so i could use Co-Maps offline during my trip (aka Maps.me and Organic Maps before enshitification)
osm is the best!
Wait did organic maps enshitify?
Thw open letter describes it best, but in short: shareholders doing things behind the devs' backs
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You contribute to OSM to have an open source database free to all
I contribute to OSM so my local Pokemon GO scene has accurate biome mapping
We are not the same
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I totally forgot to start doing this again. Just moved from the US to a tiny town in Sweden, I'll play my part!
Iโm glad you made it to safety!
Thank you me too! And I'm only a week in but so far I'm crushing it at school. Been having a great time here everyone is so kind and I don't have to worry about things like getting killed for using public bathrooms!
I have no idea why but I love contributing to OSM. it's relaxing to me while also being productive.
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@Sunshine I've been helping with Open Street Map for years. I contribute to it all the time. Currently I'm #303 globally.
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As a resident of Salt Lake City, host of the 2034 winter Olympics, I want to wow the Europeans that visit. We will not be limited by our national politics. I will continue to throw my time into OSM because I believe it will change the world beyond it's ambitions. I'm stuck on the idea of a community map.
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What is desperately needed by all the open source navigation apps on Android is traffic info. You just can't plan a half decent route without it. Speed limits info is not enough to know the time a route will take. You need the actural average speed of the roads. Especially on old European roads.
But how to do that reliably and with up-to-date info if not invading the privacy of people?
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Question: how does one not doxx them selves when mapping their local area? Or is it not an issue because you don't really provide any info past that?
To properly link your mapping to your identity, someone would both need to be able to link whatever online username you're using to the one in street complete. Which could be either easy or very hard depending on how correlated they are (same username maybe?)
And even then the accuracy will probably not be great, maybe up to the city. Any more specific than that will be hard unless the edits are very obviously centered around a street.
TLDR: probably not too bad of an issue
You can disable auto-upload. I collect 50 or 100 tasks and upload them at once. So, it's at least not possible to know where I currently am, just where I was a few days or weeks ago.
I kind of completed tasks in a larger area. But which city I'm living in is kind of obvious if you look at my OSM account.
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I find OSM is better than Google maps as Google are missing some paths
Yes, OSM is by far superior when on foot or bike basically everywhere I have been to.
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Can someone please TLDR/ELI5 how one contributes to this and what the end 'service' looks like?
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It's also much higher quality than Google Maps.
You're welcome ๐
If only the apps with navigation weren't total ass though...
Yeah, that's my biggest gripe too. It's awesome for outdoor stuff like hikes and bike rides. But actually just typing in an address/POI like in Google Maps and it finds it? Somehow it doesn't work. At least with OsmAnd and OrganicMaps.
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How does OSM handle conflict resolution? Different info, multiple listings, spam, etc.
There are folks who review the changelogs, and when there are mistakes users can make pins on the maps.
I'm checking out Street Complete, but I can't seem to modify or contribute info for the apartment I'm living in. I don't want random quests, I want to be and to key in and / or verify info for places I'm familiar with. What app should I be using?
Edit: Google says Vespucci, gonna give that a try
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