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OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022

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Re: OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022

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Post by mkaszkowiak »

benbristow wrote: post #37

OSM needs some form of gamification adding to it. Google Maps app is great, lets you gain points by adding information & photos & reviews etc. They even send you a free bespoke pair of socks or a badge if you're active enough. So fun to add photos and then see how many views they get (I posted one of a chippy in Scotland (for Americans that's Fish & Chip 'Thick French Fries' shop) which got over 1.4 million views - m…

Pokemon Go upon release encouraged people to contribute to OpenStreetMap in my area, as Pokemon weren't spawning in incorrectly tagged areas :)

Re: OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022

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Post by alias_neo »

mkaszkowiak wrote: post #61
benbristow wrote: post #37

OSM needs some form of gamification adding to it. Google Maps app is great, lets you gain points by adding information & photos & reviews etc. They even send you a free bespoke pair of socks or a badge if you're active enough. So fun to add photos and then see how many views they get (I posted one of a chippy in Scotland (for Americans that's Fish & Chip 'Thick French Fries' shop) which got over 1.4 million views - m…

Pokemon Go upon release encouraged people to contribute to OpenStreetMap in my area, as Pokemon weren't spawning in incorrectly tagged areas :)

I thought Pokemon used Google Maps like its predecessor, Ingress?

Re: OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022

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Post by Grimburger »

pwg wrote: post #41
benbristow wrote: post #37

OSM needs some form of gamification adding to it. Google Maps app is great, lets you gain points by adding information & photos & reviews etc. They even send you a free bespoke pair of socks or a badge if you're active enough. So fun to add photos and then see how many views they get (I posted one of a chippy in Scotland (for Americans that's Fish & Chip 'Thick French Fries' shop) which got over 1.4 million views - m…

> OSM needs some form of gamification adding to it. Take a look at StreetComplete [1]. It is gamification of updates to OSM. [1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplet...

The last time I submitted a few months worth of my travels at once after doing a hundred or so of these challenges/questions and got a bunch of notifications lambasting me for not updating the moment I did instead of later. Honestly didn't realise you had to manually submit, thought it just happened automatically.

Was a really rude intro to the community and reminded me a lot of SO or Wikipedia with its gatekeeping.

I've never submitted a single thing since then. If that's how you treat newcomers then I want nothing to do with you.

Re: OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022

#64

Post by Rygian »

benbristow wrote: post #37

OSM needs some form of gamification adding to it. Google Maps app is great, lets you gain points by adding information & photos & reviews etc. They even send you a free bespoke pair of socks or a badge if you're active enough. So fun to add photos and then see how many views they get (I posted one of a chippy in Scotland (for Americans that's Fish & Chip 'Thick French Fries' shop) which got over 1.4 million views - m…

I do not oppose.

But personally, I have a ton of fun just mapping for the sake of it. Seeing my contributions rendered is a satisfaction.

Re: OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022

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Post by mkaszkowiak »

alias_neo wrote: post #62
mkaszkowiak wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pokemon Go upon release encouraged people to contribute to OpenStreetMap in my area, as Pokemon weren't spawning in incorrectly tagged areas :)

I thought Pokemon used Google Maps like its predecessor, Ingress?

If I remember correctly, at first Pokemon Go used Google Maps to display the actual map, but it still used OSM data for the spawning algorithm. Later on they made the switch to only use OSM.

Re: OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022

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Post by eliaspro »

When looking at these then/now renderings, one needs to take into account, that only very little of the actual data is rendered on those maps.

The database contains an incredible level of detail which can be used in completely different contexts and I'd say what's rendered is roughly only 1/10th of the data

Re: OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022

#67

Post by MichaelCollins »

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #27
breck wrote: post #3

Don't believe what you read in the newspapers, this gives me hope for our world.

Do believe what has been accurately reported. Also, have hope for the world.

> Do believe what has been accurately reported.

Believe things if you believe them to be true.

Re: OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022

#68

Post by teddyh »

sorenjan wrote: post #50
N19PEDL2 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Maps.me as my main map and navigation app as I don't like that Google knows where I go, and I can say that it's a very good alternative to Google Maps. However I have to say that now I'm a little worried because it's Russian-owned. Happy to know that there's an open-source alternative.

OsmAnd

Important clarification: OsmAnd~, installed from F-Droid. Do not install OsmAnd straight from the default app store.

Re: OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022

#69

Post by marginalia_nu »

shakow wrote: post #53
marginalia_nu wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've found that about 80% of the bullshit my search engine crawler finds is on Russian and Chinese IPs (especially the Alibaba Cloud). Not that there isn't legitimate content, but there seems to be very little effort put toward policing the bad as long as it primarily targets a western demographic. This is not by any means a new development.

Don't forget the Bayes theorem: lot of crap comes from ru/cn domains most ru/cn domains are crap.

If I'm interested in reducing the amount of crap, it's only the left hand of that inequality I care about.

Re: OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022

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Post by yaomtc »

Grimburger wrote: post #63
pwg wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> OSM needs some form of gamification adding to it. Take a look at StreetComplete [1]. It is gamification of updates to OSM. [1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplet...

The last time I submitted a few months worth of my travels at once after doing a hundred or so of these challenges/questions and got a bunch of notifications lambasting me for not updating the moment I did instead of later. Honestly didn't realise you had to manually submit, thought it just happened automatically. Was a really rude intro to the community and reminded me a lot of SO or Wikipedia with its gatekeeping.…

It does happen automatically, pretty sure it's always worked that way. Maybe you experienced a bug?

> The user's answer is automatically processed and uploaded directly into the OSM database.

https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/

Of course uploading a few months of changes all at once is going to cause issues, naturally some will conflict with other changes that have been made in the meantime.

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