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Has anyone used or contributed to OpenStreetMap? (coeus.sbs)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've tried using it over the years but I never liked it because there was no information. So last night I looked at my local city and there is almost no information at all. I spent a few hours last night adding buildings and restaurants and removing incorrect items. It was actually kind of fun and therapeutic and I plan to do more of it tonight. My girlfriend thinks it's dumb and I'm wasting my time because Google maps and Apple maps and Bing maps exists but she just doesn't understand open source.

Edit: Apologies, I just realized this question is not Linux specific.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm contributing a lot in my area.

I started because I needed a customizable online map for a website and no map out there was really complete where I needed. So instead of waiting for commercial services, I started to log ways using GPS and add them to OSM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I already did a small modification on our street we live in, because it was not a one-way street anymore. But we also have a vacation home on a vineyard where the road does not even exist and I figured if I can log gps coordinations while going up to the gate then maybe I can use those coordinates to import them as a way in OpenStreetMap to be precise. Or, since it exists on google maps, maybe getting coordination data from there and use that to create the way. Is something like this possible?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The simplest way is to trace it on the starllite imagery available on the editor built-in to osm.org. If it's not visible there, here is the wiki's list of Android apps that can record GPS tracks, and it's not hard to find the other pages on the wiki about getting those off your phone and into the map. Some of those apps can probably do that bit for you, I've just never tried

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Great, thanks, I'll look into it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You have to use data you created yourself. It is not allowed to use proprietary data from Google. If you use Android, then the Vespucci app may help you. Allows to log the way and then directly add it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you log paths? If with an android phone, which app? And is it power intensive?

I do quite a bit of hiking, usually everything is well marked at OSM but there are some exceptions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vespucci. But I often have an external GPS connected via Bluetooth which is way more precise than the phone GPS.

But for a quick edit on the go, the app and the phone's built in GPS is all you need.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Downloaded! Thank you. :)