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[โ€“] sanity_is_maddening@piefed.social 93 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My kind of heroes. People who seek to better the world without seeking attention while doing it.

And there's an app to help contributing to openstreetmap.

Here's a link to it on f-droid...

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/

[โ€“] Zwiebel@feddit.org 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also OpenDoor. Doesn't look as pretty but you if you read a bit about tags on the osm wiki you can add and edit a lot in this app

[โ€“] sanity_is_maddening@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, cool. Need to check it. I never heard of it before.

OpenDoor. Noted. Thanks.

[โ€“] joostjakob@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

They were thinking of EveryDoor. There's also MapComplete, a bit more niche- focused on deep diving in specific themes without having to learn all the specific tagging for that topic.

[โ€“] SpaceCheeseWizard@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How does this compare to OsmAnd, which is what I currently use?

[โ€“] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Isn't OsmAnd primarily a navigation app?

StreetComplete is an app that gives you tasks to complete, like "Does the bus stop have a light? Can blind people use the cross walk? What's the house number? How many bikes can use the bike parking lot?"

It's a bit like Pokemon Go, but without a for profit company behind it and the result helps other people.

Try it out... It's free.

[โ€“] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago

Can recc Street Complete as well, so much fun. I do use Osmand to add cafes or websites to places, works quite ok for that as well.

[โ€“] SpaceCheeseWizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Well, I am convinced. Thanks for explaining the difference. I usually use the app for navigation and then add spots that I see are missing when I get home on the website.