How can we make sure their privacy claims about search aren’t bullshit?
(I still trust them though, just pointing out it is an equivalent problem)
Shoutout to https://f-droid.org/en/packages/deckers.thibault.aves.libre/, which shows your pictures on a map without any cloud service.
The link is https://sophox.org/
You forgot https://mapcomplete.org in your list!
I’m gonna be giving a bit of contrarian advise here: don’t force yourself. No-one asked you to do this all, so take it easy and one bit at a time. If you are a volunteer, just have some fun with it. When you don’t feel like continuing anymore, don’t.
Another piece of advice: “if you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together”. (But the latter is more work). If you live in a medium-sized (or bigger) city, maybe there are a few people interested in joining? Post to the local facebook group and do a small gathering with a cup of tea and map together.
Also checkout !openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
Also a great option, but closed source
No, I copy-pasted the same link twice accidentally. Edited and corrected now.
For toilets and showers: https://mapcomplete.org/toilets For drinking water: https://mapcomplete.org/drinking_water (edit: I erroneously pasted the toilet-link here before as well)
There will never be ‘more momentum’ if you don’t build it. Just kick it off and host this person, others will follow.
What would you use it for?
For beginners, there is also https://MapComplete.org
Verifying the environment - e.g. are the roads not overlapping, still somewhat up to date, …
With mapcomplete, it is literally clicking ‘upload image’, taking a picture and waiting for it to be uploaded?
In Belguim, we are importing the official building dataset into OSM, but it is a slow process.
What do you mean with “it’s not accessible to the broad public”? The pictures get linked properly with an ‘image’-tag, so it shows up in e.g. OsmAnd.
Someone might take pictures of benches and another one will add the info if there’s a backrest from home.
What about https://mapcomplete.org/benches ? Granted, it does not upload to Wikimedia commons - but then again, Wikimedia commons isn’t the right place for thousands of (mediocre) pictures of mor or less identical benches. A picture there should be “qualitative” and either “educational” or “relevant”.
amenity=drinking_water is a place where you can get drinking water. There is no requirement to be able to drink directly from the water jet. Even more, the ‘fountain=bottle_refill’ makes it clear that this is not possible.
Yes, I looked into this as well, but there are apperently quite a few, contradictory ways to do this…
Indeed,
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. You can also use https://mapcomplete.org/advertising and let MapComplete handle all the pesky tagging ;)