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I wonder if posting photos from Kabul celebration three years ago may be incriminating for its participants in the current political climate.
https://osmstats.neis-one.org/?item=countries&country=Afghan...
My job uses OSM for route planning, and contributes back changes, road closures etc. as that directly benefit us when planning the next day. It's a great system where everyone benefits. On the private, I've lately been biking/hiking lots of trails with a 360 camera, and uploaded to Mapillary as CC-BY-SA (and google street view). To make a kind of street view, but also to use the data to improve trail/mtb/biking route…
I've been thinking of recording imagery too with an action camera, using a phone for that purpose hasn't been too good in my experience because it's shaky, especially on forest trails. Also what do you think of KartaView? I'm not sure whether to trust the Meta owned Mapillary, even though the current data has an open license.
KartaView itself was never free of Meta. One reason it was never accepted on F-Droid is that it required Facebook libraries to build.
I wonder if posting photos from Kabul celebration three years ago may be incriminating for its participants in the current political climate.
Mapping is still happening in Afghanistan. The political climate is certainly not making things easier for mappers there, but the biggest problem seems to be the recent loss of free and open Maxar imagery, which my numbers say was used by about 90% of edits to the map there. https://osmstats.neis-one.org/?item=countries&country=Afghan...
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Would be wonderful if something similar exists for iPhone. There seems to be a few apps that are trying to make something in that direction but aren't as polished/nice to use as Street Complete.
Have you tried Every Door? It's a similar micro-editor for iOS: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Every_Door For more complete editing, I like to use "Go Map!!" https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map !!
Happy birthday. What's the easiest way to contribute data to it using my phone? I want to start mapping my city but I really have no idea how to do this. Any google maps style app that asks you questions about your surroundings?
Street Complete! https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete
Probably offtopic, but is there a good way to use OSM for on-the-fly route finding on Android (pref bike)? I like to fiddle with stuff just like the next HN commenter, but last time I tried this with OsmAnd I quickly gave up, it's not in the same league as Google Maps, it's not even the same sport. What I want: "Open the app, search for a destination, hit a button and get shown a route from my current location". Did…
Unlike most OSM apps it requires an internet connection but has the advantage of an address search with auto complete and alternative routes. And on bigger or wide screens you get lots of details about the path in an elevation widget in the bottom right.
It also comes with a custom model editor (gear button in the top left) where you can tweak the routing preferences to your liking like preferring more official bike networks or elevation or a slower speed etc ...
Or you can use the website https://graphhopper.com/maps/
(disclaimer: I'm one of the founders of GraphHopper)
Doesn't OSM have corporate donors? (I'd be happy to know it's not reliant on them)
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even if it does, a bunch of accessible data you can develop with is a godsend. Even if it were a completely commercial service, i'd still be happy to have some competition over the couple of monopolies that are left in this space.
I'm just hoping it doesn't turn into the Wikimedia Foundation, yearly begging for substantial funds whilst its many thousands of diligent contributors continue to work under the impression that they're doing a public good, but instead are enriching someone else's product
Doesn't OSM have corporate donors? (I'd be happy to know it's not reliant on them)
It's called corporate members https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Corporate_Members Goes from 750 Euro per year up to 30.000 per year. Those prices were raised in 2023. (disclaimer: I work for a silver sponsor)