Help to improve the OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete!
This app finds incomplete and extendable data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as markers. Each of those is solvable by answering a simple question to complete the info on site.
The info you enter is then directly added to the OpenStreetMap in your name, without the need to use another editor.
Really useful and fun to use. Unfortunately I’m nearly done with all tasks in my region.
You can always add more (harder) tasks that are disabled by default. That’s what I do for regions where there aren’t enough tasks (that I’m interested in)
There’s always the the “advanced” version of StreetComplete: SCEE.
Just discovered it, great to, thank you!!
thank you sir for your hard work
Mapping with this app is a lot of fun! Sometimes I just go for a walk and open up StreetComplete to see if I can add some small contributions, like the opening hours of some nearby establishment or whether a given entity is still at the location.
You can also customize what kind of questions are shown so you can skip on things you may not like.
An alternative for iOS is “Go Map!!”.
Thank you!
Also like that the iOS app privacy section says:
Data Not Collected The developer does not collect any data from this app
You don’t see that every day!
Unfortunately, it’s not available in my country :/
Nice one!
Does this have the same “tell us more about this place please” functionality or does it just let you make edits?
It asks you about the road type, house numbers etc.
The slightly more hardcore version of r/place.
r/place but is really a place in a map
this app showed me how much i don’t know from my neighbourhood. It’s really fun.
it even allows you to put notes on things the app doesn’t give you an edit choice by default. I let someone know a street name was outdated that way.
It’s super fun! I learned about this recently. This and geocaching really adds motivation for long walks.
even the mundane is enjoyable, today i went grocery shopping and just added the schedules of the stores I went in.
Why does fdroid say that it promotes or depends on non-free networkl service?
f-droid defines it as
Non-Free Network Services
This Anti-Feature is applied to apps that promote or depend entirely on a Non-Free network service which is impossible, or not easy to replace. Replacement requires changes to the app or service. This antifeature would not apply, if there is a simple configuration option that allows pointing the app to a running instance of an alternative, publicly available, self-hostable, free software server solution.
Here’s the list of apps with Non-Free Network Services.
Maybe the image hosting of the dev for notes
SCEE is described as StreetComplete for advanced users. Does anyone have experience with this?
It’s exactly as it says. SCEE comes without handholding which means should know what you do.
It’s better to follow a guide on mapping and osm in general and after that you can use it without holding back.
I use both versions actively, the main differences of SCEE compared to StreetComplete are the addtion of more obscure questions (for example building and roof colors, species/genus of trees), allowing direct editing of tags and disabling the gamification/statistics.
Thanks for sharing! This should be fun to contribute to while riding my electric unicycle.
Thank you! Did not know about this app ❤️
I discovered the app a few weeks ago and man, am I thrilled. I totally grinded it out too. Above all, I find the function for measuring the width of the street very elegant
@original_reader great app! I love the idea of OpenStreetMap and like contributing, and this makes it super easy. Thanks for posting.
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Yeah, it’s made more for refining and confirming details than for adding entirely new objects.
When I want to add something that’s not on the map yet, I either add a note in StreetComplete and come back to it later on my computer, or I add it using Vespucci. (I’ve been known to add items using Vespucci, then reload the data on StreetComplete so I can fill in details that aren’t in the presets and that I can’t remember how to tag manually!)
Saved you a search.
I add stuff in OSMAnd. But StreetComplete is easier for, err, completing data on what’s already there.
How do you that in OSMAnd? Would love to collaborate.
How open is this? Can anybody download the data that is collected? Or is this like Waze, which did something similar, then just sold out to Google?
The only thing I want to say is “OpenStreetMap got the FSF award in 2018”.
As the same openstreetmap site say it’s the wikipedia of maps, run by the community and some corporations like meta, Microsoft and Apple.
And some people, like me, thanks to microg use the data for geocoding and don’t rely on google for that.
Its used by Bing and Apple, so they would for sure piss off some people selling out. That being said I have no clue how its run, God pray it isnt as “open” as openai
Edit: nevermind, heres their license, doesn’t look too bad
OpenStreetMap has been going for almost 20 years now. It’s a very well known open map data platform. Like Wikipedia, anyone can edit OSM map data, and all of the data is freely available for anyone to use.
Nice. I’ll participate whenever I have some time.
Thank you for sharing this.
