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You can and you should contribute - Open Street Map (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] merde 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

once you complete every quest on your commute, what do you do?

parallel streets ✅

and then?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not parallel streets.

[–] merde 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that turns the commute into a promenade

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That's exactly what happened. Fortunately I have 4 different offices and I can work from 'home' anywhere so sometimes I go work at a friend's place instead of working at my place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's always more to tag. It's crazy. But I started talking walks during my break.

One thing that I haven't got to is tagging street width and that you can do by using your phones' camera for measuring.

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/de.westnordost.streetmeasure

[–] merde 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In order to use this app, you will need to have the proprietary Google Play Services for AR app installed on your device as well.

🤐

edit: this is for StreetMeasure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

_What are the system requirements of this app?

StreetComplete requires Android 5.0, and a screen size of at least 4.3" is recommend. Apart from that, any reasonably modern phone (at least 2GB RAM, around 500MB of free space) should support it. It doesn't require Google Play Services_

Edit: You were aiming at Streetcomplete, I see now. This is in their FAQ:

According to our tests, it does work without Google Play Services being installed, but, as said before, the device needs to be compatible.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete/FAQ

[–] merde 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i'm using streetComplete without google. It's streetMeasure that requires Google Play Sevices

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Apparently, per their own FAQ, it is possible to use it without Google Play Services.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

_What are the system requirements of this app?