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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is my pastime whenever I don't have anything to do online. It's fun to point something on OSM and remembering the establishments you've walkthrough.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

StreetComplete is intended for local, on-the-ground surveying only. Editing remotely is not supported, and will result in problems.

(I'm not sure whether you're editing remotely vs reminiscing during in-person visits, phrasing is slightly ambiguous.)