I’ve tried using it over the years but I never liked it because there was no information. So last night I looked at my local city and there is almost no information at all. I spent a few hours last night adding buildings and restaurants and removing incorrect items. It was actually kind of fun and therapeutic and I plan to do more of it tonight. My girlfriend thinks it’s dumb and I’m wasting my time because Google maps and Apple maps and Bing maps exists but she just doesn’t understand open source.
Edit: Apologies, I just realized this question is not Linux specific.
I have added some nearby forest paths to OSM and added some bicycle paths alongside roads which were already mapped, using OSM mostly for outside of road network since other maps do not show forest paths and the like at all while OSM has decent coverage
I contribute regularly. I used to waste a lot of time watching TV series, instead now I contribute to OSM.
Tesla uses osm via mapbox.
I contribute as much as I can, mostly through StreetComplete. I see it as a hobby when it isn’t too hot/cold outside, to take a walk around my area and map houses and addresses. I find it super important
I second StreetComplete. I actually had quite a surprise when I first installed it - I expected to have a lot of mapping work ahead of me in my somewhat rural area, but most of it had been mapped in a lot of detail already.
I’m curious where you live that there isn’t much mapping data. I’ve used StreetComplete for a few years, everywhere I’ve been wherever I’ve travelled all over the world. Wherever I go, there’s already so much data and it’s already so detailed, that the only stuff StreetComplete can give me is “what kind of paving stones are used on this sidewalk?” and “how many floors are in this apartment building 3 blocks away?”
Hey I have never contributed to OSM and I just looked at https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/ on fdroid and there is a warning about “This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service”. Do you know which non-free network this is referring to?
I’m not sure, but that’s very curious! Maybe they’re considering OSM itself non-free?
It seems to use jawg.io for its base map. Perhaps it’s this?
StreetComplete is perhaps the easiest and maybe best way to contribute as it is on rails. Constraining input for newer users is great. If your area is saturated with information I look at that as a win for the open community as a whole, but I understand the desire to add more.
There is SCEE which has advanced features and more editing options but I haven’t explored it yet. I am just happy something like StreetComplete exists to allow me to contribute in a meaningful way without adding garbage data.
I prefer Organic Maps for mobile mapping. I feel like Street Complete focuses too much on things that don’t matter much, whereas Organic Maps editing is more POI focused.
There’s no data in Central New Jersey where I live
Probably because they ban hitchhikers, the loyal OSMappers
I live in the Midwest United States. The city I live in has a population of around 40,000. The roads are there but almost no businesses.
I’ve used StreetComplete for a while. It tends to ask me about things that are important to disabled users, like whether pedestrian crossings are designed for blind people or for users of mobility devices. It feels good to help empower them to navigate the environment, even if I never meet them.
I did a few small corrections in the area I live. I removed a public road that wasn’t a road but a private paved path. I got heavily criticized in a PM by another member for doing so. Haven’t bothered doing anything since
Editing since people are correction me. Perhaps path is the wrong word to have used. Driveway would probably be more suitable.
Long ago I started my city when there was nothing.
I did poor job, but I mapped streets in parts of the city I lived until then.
One or two years ago people fixed my mistakes and mapped the rest of the city. I consider it huge success, so just start and others will come and add more details.
It was great feeling, calming and fun. And addicting.
Haven’t done anything recent since all locations I am familiar with are now mapped to great details.
Huh. I’m sorry that was your reception. They should have been helpful towards a new member of the community. It looks like they should have redirected you to the access=private article.
You’re not supposed to remove roads. Just mark it as private
It wasn’t a road
I started with street complete, an app that lets you contribute/ fill out stuff in a playfull way, makes it a lot easier! Also OpenStreetMap is better in some things than g-maps e.g. for cycling roads, people with special needs or if you want to know where e.g. benches or waterplaces are
Hi! Wrong sub? No worries, our
subredditcommunity ([email protected]) is right here as well!Did you also know that Apple Maps and Bing Maps use OSM data too in some areas, for some types of categories? Bing even has cloned an OSM-editing program.
Furthermore, you can use https://mapcomplete.osm.be to add shops or other POI. (Obligatory shill as I’m the main dev of that one ;) )
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I spent a few hours last night adding buildings and restaurants and removing incorrect items. It was actually kind of fun and therapeutic and I plan to do more of it tonight.
Same here. I actually use OSM editing as others would use drawing. I even edit on OSM while engaging with people, just as others would sketch in their drawing book.
My girlfriend thinks it’s dumb and I’m wasting my time because Google maps and Apple maps and Bing maps exists
In case you or she is into hiking: Komoot is literally using OSM data. Paths for hiking and cycling outside the city are almost nonexistent on the big commercial services. When I’m going for a walk and I find a trashcan, I add it to OSM while I’m walking. My thinking is that people might be less likely to throw trash in the woods when they know that a trashcan is just around the corner.
Apologies, I just realized this question is not Linux specific.
“Has anyone used or contributed to OpenStreetMap, the data source of popular Linux apps Gnome Maps and KDE Marble?”
FTFY
you like lemmy? it works because ppl contribute. osm…same! try https://streetcomplete.app and contribute!!!
I downloaded it earlier today and went for a 1hr walk and submitted over 60 contributions. It’s kinda addictive.
I love that you don’t need constant internet connection to use it.
Thanks for the recommendation!
The paranoid Eastern European in me awakes when the app asks for material of power poles, bridge types, and surface firmness of forest tracks… 😬
Russia has entered the chat.
It’s useful to now that to detect the most climate vulnerable poles (wood) in the country.
According to https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/187
I wish there was an iOS version of this
Streetcomplete is cool, feels like a geo-quiz and you have to answer 100% correct ;)
I’m in the UK and open street map has mapped out my local area more accurately than google. It is marginal, but I stopped using google maps after a few issues: I was hiking and it directed me into a privately owned farm (claiming it is a permissive footpath).The farmer was very racist.
Another time I was directed through the middle of a primary school.
Lol at the racist farmer
Yup!
I have switched from Google Maps to Here we go for years now and been loving it
Does Here use OSM data?
I heard bing maps is moving to using OSM data for their map products.
Sorry, but HERE-maps does not use OSM data. They list their sources here: https://legal.here.com/en-gb/terms/general-content-supplier-terms-and-notices
You’re right - could have sworn that they used it. NIffy website i did just found was https://osm-apps.zottelig.ch/ that points out the different variety of OSM. On a side note, I have switched over to /e/OS on my main cellphone and it uses Magic Earth, which def uses OSM.
Thanks for the clarify check -
I use it all the time with OSMand. and i have contributed to OSM for years. I just had a look - i start in Sep 2010 (13 years!) and all of my edits (except for a humanitarian tracing excersice for mozambique) i have been to. it is a niice spread:
Ooohh!! Please, post a bit in the lemmy community as well.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
done 😀
Started contributing aswell when I saw that my city was really outdated and it’s actually really fun to do it
Used it every day when delivering, because there was much more detail than google maps, so I could actually see where fences and gates are. Used Waze to drive and OSM to walk.
