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This thing is so much fun! I love wandering around a new area and filling in the details. One thing I wish it had was the ability to add an entirely new buildi

This thing is so much fun! I love wandering around a new area and filling in the details. One thing I wish it had was the ability to add an entirely new building. I'm currently living in a town that is experiencing massive growth and I'll often see a structure that's still a vacant lot on osm, and I don't think you can add it with StreetComplete.

betamaxthetape 4y ago
The easiest thing to do for such cases is to add a note, perhaps with a picture of the building if you're comfortable. There must be folk who dedicate their time to searching the OSM database for unresolved notes, because whenever I leave a note on StreetComplete mentioning an inaccuracy (e.g: a path where there isn't actually one, a driveway marked incorrectly as a road, etc.) I get an email alert a few days later notifying me that the note has been resolved - often by someone who lives in an entirely different country (and who can use the information I provide in the note plus the satellite imagery to resolve the note).
- matkoniecz 4y ago
  I am one of such people (I do this partially to catch problems in StreetComplete design). So thanks for leaving notes allowing remote fixing!
  - JeremyNT 4y ago
    Amazing, thanks for your efforts! I've just now sent a couple such notes up into the ether :)
pwg 4y ago
> One thing I wish it had was the ability to add an entirely new building. If you want to add an entirely new building on the go, there is Vespucci: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.blau.android/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.blau.android/ But, honestly, adding a building on a phone sized screen, while quite possible, is much more easily done with either of the two desktop editors: JOSM, Java based: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ iD, Web based, this is the editor available from the "Edit" button from the OSM website: https://www.openstreetmap.org https://www.openstreetmap.org

betamaxthetape 4y ago

The easiest thing to do for such cases is to add a note, perhaps with a picture of the building if you're comfortable. There must be folk who dedicate their time to searching the OSM database for unresolved notes, because whenever I leave a note on StreetComplete mentioning an inaccuracy (e.g: a path where there isn't actually one, a driveway marked incorrectly as a road, etc.) I get an email alert a few days later notifying me that the note has been resolved - often by someone who lives in an entirely different country (and who can use the information I provide in the note plus the satellite imagery to resolve the note).

matkoniecz 4y ago
I am one of such people (I do this partially to catch problems in StreetComplete design). So thanks for leaving notes allowing remote fixing!
- JeremyNT 4y ago
  Amazing, thanks for your efforts! I've just now sent a couple such notes up into the ether :)

pwg 4y ago

> One thing I wish it had was the ability to add an entirely new building. If you want to add an entirely new building on the go, there is Vespucci: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.blau.android/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.blau.android/ But, honestly, adding a building on a phone sized screen, while quite possible, is much more easily done with either of the two desktop editors: JOSM, Java based: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ iD, Web based, this is the editor available from the "Edit" button from the OSM website: https://www.openstreetmap.org https://www.openstreetmap.org