Today I found out that it's actually a lot easier to contribute to Open Street Map than I thought. There are some serious gaps in house addresses in my area and I was painstakingly using the built in browser editor in the browser.

But, you can use a FOSS app (available on fdroid) called StreetComplete that makes it a lot easier to help out filling in the gaps in your local map data.

It's really fun - kind of like Pokémon Go but you are actually making an impact 😁

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[–] MorganCS@discuss.online 6 points 1 year ago

This is a blast, thanks for the recommendation

[–] c0mmando@links.hackliberty.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you'd like to be able to search for house addresses in osmand+ you can download these map packs.. A total life saver..

https://github.com/pnoll1/osmand_map_creation

[–] regalia@literature.cafe 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wow why is that not part of OSM to begin with

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[–] ovec@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hmm. I dislike that it uploads every thing as a separate change. I much more prefer editing the whole area and saving it as one neat package, rather than posting hundreds of "this is road is made of asphalt" posts.

So it's not for me, but if that helps to make OSM better, I'm all for it!

Maybe I could make a separate account without neat history and from time to time click some icons in the app though. That probably wouldn't bother me as much.

[–] joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it doesnt close a changeset after every single change, at least it shouldnt. mmv but if I close the app for some time it bundles my changes in one OSM set

[–] MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

No it doesn't close changeset on every change, 30 days ago I added 123 house numbers in my city with streetcomplete and all of them were in the same changeset.

[–] StorageAware@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

It actually bundles answers to a certain quest together if I remember correctly. For example, all road surface quests within a certain time (about an hour?) are grouped into one change set. Though if you did one road surface quests and one opening hours quests they would uploaded as two separate change sets.

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[–] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 5 points 1 year ago

Yep - been using it for a week or two myself. Nearly 400 points so far!

[–] HamSandwichGenerator@lemmus.org 4 points 1 year ago

Just downloaded this today and going nuts making contributions in my neighborhood. Thanks so much for the suggestion!

[–] Undearius@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Another recommendation, especially for addresses and points of interest, is https://every-door.app/

It's not as pretty as StreetConplete but it's fine to work with.

[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Very cool, downloaded and will start using It!

[–] sixfold@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I've been using Go Map! but it keeps crashing... Maybe I'll try Streetcomplete if it's on apple.

[–] Bartem@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m still missing this on iOS, we do have “go map!!” Which is great, but that’s a bit of a different kind of app for me.

[–] PupBiru@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i use Every Door on ios… its UI is hideous, but very functional

in still pretty new to it all though so it might not be great… better than go map for edits though

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