- This 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!
by nisiddharth
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- I 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.
- Well, 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.
- This should make George happy:
https://mapcomplete.org/toilets.html?z=10&lat=40.9094928&lon...
by voidUpdate
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- I opened this up, and immediately saw a contribution I could make. Created an OSM account and fixed it =)
- How'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
by mattw2121
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- IDK, 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?
- Hmmm, 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.
by jszymborski
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- I think we're hugging it to death.
by ProofHouse
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- Asing 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.
- I 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.
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