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MapComplete: Maps about various topics which you can contribute to
- voidUpdate 4mo agoI opened this up, and immediately saw a contribution I could make. Created an OSM account and fixed it =)
- matkoniecz 4mo agothanks!
- pwnguide 4mo agoThis is genuinely one of the best tools to emerge in the OpenStreetMap ecosystem in recent years. If you've ever tried to onboard a non-technical person to OSM, you know the struggle. The default web editor (iD) can still be overwhelming with its sheer amount of data, and JOSM (the desktop power-user tool) is entirely out of the question for casual contributors. Thanks!
- cf100clunk 4mo agoI've occasionally used the CoMaps OSM editing capability to just get the basics in before doing the big work in JOSM, or more likely the web editor. Now I'll be looking into MapComplete much further.
- bulder 4mo agoI'd also strongly endorse its on-the-street mobile app counterpart, StreetComplete. Splitting stuff into tiny tasks you can focus on really helps if you're just out on foot in an area.
- matkoniecz 4mo agoOr if you are looking for pretext to walk a bit in area known to you :)
- jmaw 4mo agoWhat do you mean by this? Does the app have a way of showing you new things in familiar areas?
- matkoniecz 4mo agoI like to have some goal on walk even silly one. "Solve the quest asking about opening hours of shop I have not spotted before" qualifies for me. Even "check footway surface there" qualifies. At least for me.
- fstrelok 4mo agoThis is the app I miss the most switching from android to ios. I so wish there was an ios app of streetcomplete.
- BHSPitMonkey 4mo agoIt's being worked on! https://github.com/orgs/streetcomplete/projects/1 https://github.com/orgs/streetcomplete/projects/1
- Zverik 4mo agoYou could use Every Door — a bit harder to learn, but more powerful too. MapComplete is a web app, so it should work.
- quinncom 4mo agoSimilarly, `Go Map!!` is an iOS app that makes editing OSM data easy. Adding missing features is one of my favorite things to do while traveling, and feels like a way of giving back (“take only photos, leave only GIS traces”?)
- ProofHouse 4mo agoCould be but needs a serious UI/UX revamp (easy). Maximally remove friction when asking for user contributions. Like literally on the first page it puts adding public clocks, I repeat, PUBLIC CLOCKS (and other such things), on equal footing as adding a restaurant. Like, no.
- pietervdvn 4mo agoThanks for the compliments :) Yeah, the complexity of the other tools is the pitch of MapComplete
- nemomarx 4mo agoHow's this compare with street complete? It seems like the categories are different and maybe wider? just curious how the different tools the community has made stack up
- matkoniecz 4mo agoFor start StreetComplete is an Android app unavailable (for now) elsewhere. MapComplete has multiple in-depth layers, while StreetComplete is more general. StreetComplete puts more focus on being usable out-of the box for newbies, while I would describe MapComplete as having focus on usability but allowing deeper dive in specific topics. (disclaimer: I helped with developing StreetComplete)
- PetitPrince 4mo agoStreetcomplete can filter the map with a variety of filters for features you can edit or complete(Street lighting, Surfaces, Sidewalks, Bike paths, Street parking, Addresses, Places, Things, Buildings). Plus there's some specific "quests" where you can complete information for specific POI ("Does this bench have a backrest? Yes|No", "Where does this fire hydrant lies? On the grass | On the roadway | On a walkway | On a parking). Mapcomplete also offers filling info about existing POI, but you can filter on specific theme (Drinking water, sports) or very specific theme (etymology) or even your own. There's also an UI to add new POIs; I don't think it's possible with StreetComplete. Either way both are great.
- matkoniecz 4mo ago> There's also an UI to add new POIs; I don't think it's possible with StreetComplete. You can do it in Things and Places layers (layers can be enabled by tapping circle in top-right)
- schoen 4mo agoWhat does the etymology theme do? Allow you to add the etymologies of place names?
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- jszymborski 4mo agoI think we're hugging it to death.
- cf100clunk 4mo agoI've been in and out of MapComplete since this arrived on HN and have not had any such problems.
- sonar_un 4mo agoYeah, it's definitely super slow right now.
- Noaidi 4mo agoI am aggravated by this post because it reminds me of how good life could be with an internet that was not enshittified. Really great way to edit OSM and ulike StreetComplete I can use it on the web. I tried editing through OSM and found it confusing and difficult.
- pietervdvn 4mo agoThanks for the compliments :)
- simmschi 4mo agoHmmm, I love OSM, consume their data in my small cycling project and regularly contribute smaller fixes. But I also shy away from anything more complex than fixing attributes and meta data of existing objects. Especially editing relations, ways and nodes - is this possible with MapComplete? I loaded the Cyclofix map, but I can't even select cycle paths or roads, just edit POIs.
- pietervdvn 4mo agoCheckout https://mapcomplete.org/cycle_infra https://mapcomplete.org/cycle_infra and https://mapcomplete.org/cyclenodes.html https://mapcomplete.org/cyclenodes.html Editing attributes of relations is possible. Adding or deleting objects to relations might become possible one day. Editing geometries is out of scope for this project.
- simmschi 4mo agoThanks for the pointer! I posted here before properly exploring the other themes. Really nice project. Thank you for contributing to the OSM community. >Editing geometries is out of scope for this project. Out of curiosity, may I ask why? It's not that I have this use case regularly, cycling-related it mainly comes up dealing with tracks through forests and fields.
- pietervdvn 4mo agoExcellent question! First: editing _attributes_ of geometries is totally possible, editing the _shape_ of geometries is not possible with MapComplete. If one allows to edit shapes (aka: geometries), this means that one can draw or move lines around - for example: add/move a cyclepath. A contributor might thus move a line into another geometry (such as a building). But as MapComplete has focused maps, they might not be shown to this contributor! Allowing to edit geomtry shapes this implies I should show all _other_ lines and polygons (e.g. forests, streams, buildings, ...) to avoid incorrect intersection. The point of MapComplete is to keep it simple and focussed on a single topic. Showing all geometries is counter to that. On top of that, we already have an excellent tool which handles geometry drawing: the iD editor you'll find on openstreetmap.org/edit . One could also argue that creating/moving points (which can be done with MapComplete) could also cause data errors; but the 'add new point'-wizard has some steps to invite to add with high accuraccy. And even if someone adds a point in a wrong location (e.g. in a building instead of outside of it), the impact of a misplaced point is generally way less then that of a misplaced line or area.
- nisiddharth 4mo agoI use this app fairly regularly to locate public toilets (I walk 15-20 km daily in random directions after getting down a random bus stop in my city) and have contributed some locations as well.
- mattw2121 4mo agoIDK, maybe I'm missing something, but I can't do something I feel like should be super basic. I went into the Arcade category, zoomed to my city, Arcade was in the wrong location. How can I report an incorrect location?
- Jabdoa2 4mo agoYou can login with an OpenStreetmaps.org (osm) account and edit it yourself. This app is used to add those objects. There is also an app "StreetComplete".
- pietervdvn 4mo agoTo keep the user interface clean, I hide buttons when they are not relevant. If you are logged out, the 'move this feature' button is hidden. In other words, you need to log in with an OSM-account. Then, the 'move this feature' button at the bottom of the popup will be visible.
- ProofHouse 4mo agoAsing users to have to navigate all those options with terrible design and UI, then putting them on zoom out of the world, having to click a bunch to zoom in to their location (95% of what people would be adding would be where they are)...I mean I could go on, but that is where I bounced. I was happy to add the cafe I am at, and others, but once I got to this point I was like ok, no sorry. Improved UI would go a long way.
- NoSalt 4mo agoThis should make George happy: https://mapcomplete.org/toilets.html?z=10&lat=40.9094928&lon=-73.816088 https://mapcomplete.org/toilets.html?z=10&lat=40.9094928&lon...
- pietervdvn 4mo agoWho is George? I'm probably missing some (cultural) reference
- larodi 4mo agoWell, nice try, but sadly maintaining up to date GIS data takes much more than a UI. The only thing that gets close to such datalake is perhaps OSM and ESRI World Atlas... but nothing is close to huggingface or github as positioning. Besides, data is a live thing, and all such cartography very quickly dates and gets irrelevant or incorrect.
- Self-Perfection 4mo agoLooks like you missed that MapComplete is an alternative interface to view OSM data and contribute to it.
- larodi 4mo agoI can well see and disambiguate what it is and is not what QGIs aims to be. Nothing is close to QGIS in terms of features, it deploys 1gig of open tech. The only trouble is the design of the app haven’t changed much in 20 years, while data sizes did 10x at least on every level. It struggles to breath u der heavy load…
- flexagoon 4mo agoWhat does QGIS have to do with this? It's not even an OSM editor.
- thibaultmol 4mo agoMapcomplete is literally an OSM editor though... xd
- pietervdvn 4mo agoHi all! MapComplete creator here! If you have any questions, shoot!
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