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https://musical-osm.netlify.app
I'm always surprised by how active it is whenever I visit it. OSM is such an amazing project.
I wonder how to go about to collaborate to the OSM ecosystem with code. Does anyone know what are the cool projects within OSM in C/C++? (i.e. not web stuff)
Take a look at Tippecanoe, which is under active development again[0]. The original developer, Erica Fischer (who is wonderful to work with), has a fork[1] where new work is happening. [0] https://felt.com/blog/erica-fischer-tippecanoe-at-felt [1] https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe
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> 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 happens automatically in default configuration.
You can enable manual upload in settings if you want, but then, well, you need to upload it manually.
I am contributor to StreetComplete - so maybe I will add feature to start reminding about upload if edits are old.
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What they mean is that OSM is not a commercial product that licenses satellite or aerial imagery, so the website does not include this (it's really just a showcase of various info that's in the database, not meant to be fit for any particular purpose, although it's surprisingly good for general use). However, some image sources are available under free licenses, or in Bing's case, a special license for drawing roads…
So you can't use satellite data (of the same detail as on Google maps) without paying is basically the answer to my question if I understand you correctly?
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What they mean is that OSM is not a commercial product that licenses satellite or aerial imagery, so the website does not include this (it's really just a showcase of various info that's in the database, not meant to be fit for any particular purpose, although it's surprisingly good for general use). However, some image sources are available under free licenses, or in Bing's case, a special license for drawing roads…
So you can't use satellite data (of the same detail as on Google maps) without paying is basically the answer to my question if I understand you correctly?
OpenStreetMap is a database, not a website.
Its purpose is to reference stuff that you can see in the street, not to provide a sleek map website.
OpenStreetMap provides map data. They are not a provider of satellite data. You would have to go look elsewhere, and pay someone else.
Now, the openstreetmap.org website still does a decent job at showing a map, though its geocoder is lacking. The website also lacks several features, some are provided by overpass (https://overpass-turbo.eu) for instance, https://brouter.de, etc. OpenStreetMap data is integrated with satellite data and much more on a lot of websites.
For instance, https://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/carte has aerial photography imagery for France, plus a few map overlays, including OSM. French national geography institute (IGN) releases free aerial photography, there are other sources for other countries. If you go to "edit" mode on the openstreetmap.org website, you'll see aerial/satellite imagery too, licensed for free from bing and others. AFAIK, that license is only for editors, thus they can't have it on the main website (and that wouldn't be a showcase of OSM data anyway).
I agree it's a bit of a shame that the openstreetmap.org doesn't do a better job of showcasing the wealth of data, and it could be more user friendly. There are a lot of other websites that provide the same data, represented differently. https://osmand.net/map for instance. https://www.qwant.com/maps has vector maps and is quite good too!
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…
This is the main thing I hate about google maps. I refuse to do free work for google in return for 'fun'.
I also enjoy adding a food shot or a representative photo of places I have enjoyed as a small reward and enticement for others to do likewise.
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Try thinking of it as work done to help other real people. I found the "Emergency" door of a local hospital hard to find IRL, so I added a photo of it from the driveway POV. Another sort of real person you can help are the web-clueless owners of local small businesses.
Instead of supplying a mega corp with some free information to increase their monopoly on directions, maybe you could have just mentioned to the hospital staff that they could do with a new sign pointing to the door?
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No, it’s security theater.
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.
I just came across the open-sourcing blog post. Thank you for doing this. Search is something I'm quite interested in. Is there a public mailing list somewhere to discuss marginalia-related stuff? I'll probably look into contributing at a later point (I've also always wondered how good sqlite+webtorrent would do fare a search engine, for instance -- not saying I'll make a PR for that, but I'd be curious to investigate stuff like that).
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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.…
This is terrible. I have no experience with it myself, but if OSM wants community contributions, they need to make sure that people feel welcome to contribute. Lambasting people for getting something wrong is not helpful. Thanking them and advising them how to do it better next time would be much better.
Thanking them and advising is the recommended way to handle this.
Unfortunately, as happens in all large crowdsourced areas, some don't adhere to the recommended ways and "do their own thing", often to the detriment of the project as a whole.
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> 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...
This thing is so much fun! I love wandering around a new area and filling in the details. One thing I wish it had was the ability to add an entirely new building. I'm currently living in a town that is experiencing massive growth and I'll often see a structure that's still a vacant lot on osm, and I don't think you can add it with StreetComplete.
If you want to add an entirely new building on the go, there is Vespucci:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.blau.android/
But, honestly, adding a building on a phone sized screen, while quite possible, is much more easily done with either of the two desktop editors:
JOSM, Java based: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/
iD, Web based, this is the editor available from the "Edit" button from the OSM website: https://www.openstreetmap.org