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I try to contribute to OSM whenever I get the chance from my smartphone. I like that others do too; often times it'll give me walking directions through a mall
by toastal 7y ago
I try to contribute to OSM whenever I get the chance from my smartphone. I like that others do too; often times it'll give me walking directions through a mall or whatever sometimes shaving 10 minutes off. It's only as good as it's users though, so I encourage more to contribute.
- Vinnl 7y agoA strong recommendation here for the StreetComplete app, which makes it really, really easy to contribute: https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete#readme https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete#readme
- t0mislav 7y agoAgree! Can't be easier than this!
- MR4D 7y agoAnything like this for iPhone?
- lukeqsee 7y agoI use OSMAnd and Go Map!! to make edits. Go Map!! is particularly good for editing, while OSMAnd is a more full-featured map application which also supports editing.
- freosam 7y agoYeah, I love OSMAnd for that reason. With it, you can add POIs and for more complicated edits that need a bigger screen etc. it's easy to add OSM Notes (which other mappers can then follow up on). Notes I find particularly good when I'm travelling and don't have time or enough knowledge of the area to actually edit the map, but want to help others do so.
- leokennis 7y agoGo Map! is indeed a fine app. But it does require some OSM knowledge, like the various tags. In that regard the linked Android app is a lot simpler.
- xattt 7y agoNot for contributing/editing, but for an offline map set with CarPlay, I use Magic Earth. The routing algorithms are okay though.
- ioulian 7y agoThat is a great initiative! I just installed the app and contributed some tweaks in my area. Also, I couldn't find any info on this matter: some quests ask you what number a house is. Wouldn't people find it strange that a random person is standing in front of your house and looking at the number and then types on their smartphone? AFAIK house numbers are not private info, but still...
- carlinmack 7y agoyou can just apologise for the inconvenience and move on if anything happens, it's not like they can call the police or anything
- nkrisc 7y ago> it's not like they can call the police or anything Well, they can. Whether or not the police will bother doing anything can depend on a lot of factors.
- mtmail 7y agoHappens to me regularly, especially when I take photos of shop names, opening hour or draw building outlines (on an existing OSM map printout). The more residential the area the more questions. Of the last five questions two knew what OpenStreetMap is so that's progress.
- roptat 7y agoI usually carry a few stickers on me just in case, so people can remember OSM and look it up later (after I explain what I'm doing and say it's a fun community project).
- maire 7y agoSadly these maps still have our driveway as a "road." Years ago I heard that Apple was going to use OSM data for their map app. I contacted OSM to remove our driveway. They did demote our driveway to a "private road" (the best I could do). Luckily, our driveway is not in the Apple maps app. I am still somewhat irritated particularly when I see our driveway in apps like this.
- pwg 7y agoYou could sign up for an OSM account (it is free) and edit your driveway so it is no longer a 'road' but is instead labeled as a driveway. Hopefully you'll make a few more corrections as well, but even if this is the only edit you make, it is a contribution to the whole.
- ghaff 7y agoFWIW, OSM lists both my and my neighbors' long driveways as "service roads." (Which isn't an obviously incorrect classification although the actual mapping doesn't seem wholly accurate.)
- rmc 7y agoThe proper way to map a private driveway in OSM is `highway=service,service=driveway,access=private`. I can see why you, or a simplistic data consumer, would class that as “service road”
- ghaff 7y agoSo, as I read it above and in the Wiki, I gather that driveway is a subset of service road? (Actually, in my specific case, it's a little more complicated in that the access to a couple houses and a couple outbuildings are interconnected so it should probably be tagged 'driveway=pipestem' as well.)
- maxerickson 7y agoRefinement is probably a better word than subset, because it depends on how the data gets used; if someone makes a map that interprets all highway=service the same way, driveways will look just like all the rest. If they interpret service=driveway in addition to highway=service, then they will look different.