You can and you should contribute - Open Street Map

I'm addicted to Streetcomplete. I'm 20.000+ edits in. I make about 100 with ease on my commute to work.

Just did around 150 contributions, looks fun so I might complete more quests tomorrow

Is there an open street map based map app that shows live traffic? I'm trying to get my grandfather to switch to open source, and he says it's the one feature he needs.

kind of like Pokémon Go but you are actually making an impact

I caught the whole first generation + my favorite Celebi. How's that for an impact?

I use Organic maps, and it's easy to add and edit places with.

I didn´t realize editing OSM is so easy. I just logged in, did a short tutorial and fixed one intersection where a week ago the app told to do an illegal turn. Awesome!

Solid recommendation! "Contribute missing data" sounds like a chore, but this app is super fun

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There is a "road" near my house in OSM that does not exist and OSM is always trying to route me though it, which is very annoying. Is there any way to mark them for removal? StreetComplete doesn't seem to have that capability.

Street complete is amazing. I've been obsessed with it for a couple years. I never would have made hundreds of OSM submissions without it. Whenever I'm bored, sitting in some place waiting, instead of doom scrolling, I pull out up and see if there is anything I can contribute to the area

I'm contributing at my level. But, when I see all the errors, issues and missing object around me, it's a full time job for at least one months.

I don't really know or use Open Street Map, so I wonder:

Can everyone just manipulate the map data? Is there some sort of control mechanism or is it easy to incorporate fake data?

I'm asking because this seems to be a really fallible concept, where people with malicious intents would have an easy way to disturb Open Street Map.

Maps.me and organicsmaps apps are great too to edit osm. You can also replace google maps and its navigator which is great because if you don't find something on maps.me, you can immediately add it.

Very glad I saw this. I've been getting increasingly fed up with Google Maps. Their map in my area is full of annoying errors, such as routing you through roads that haven't existed for a decade, or along private roads that are not open to the public. And no matter how many times I report them, nothing ever gets fixed. Going to give OSM a try and hopefully make the switch for good. Already saw that the map in my area is in much better shape than Google's.

I've was doing the same until yesterday, then I found StreetComplete. Since then, it's so much easier to enter addresses. So much easier to add addresses while out walking than to carry a notepad or memorize numbers.

This is my pastime whenever I don't have anything to do online. It's fun to point something on OSM and remembering the establishments you've walkthrough.

Oh heck yea! My neighborhood is better mapped on OSM than Google Maps even now! Very fulfilling to see.

Personally I think a great combo is mapping stuff out with the phone where you can survey the place and have GPS, and then sending those changes to a computer to polish in JOSM if needed (e.g. when you're building new ways and want to make their geometry nicer) which is a lot more powerful editor and more comfortable than doing it on a touchscreen.

But whichever editor you prefer, I concur that mapping is very fun and also useful. :)

(And a lot more straight forward than trying to make a change in Apple or especially Google Maps...)

Vote and comment for an iOS app https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/discussions/5230

StreetComplete is awesome and so easy to use.

Do you need an account?

I just started using it but I made a mistake on one of my submissions. Is there any way to undo or edit a submission made in the app?

Edit: There is an undo button on the bottom left in the app.

This is a blast, thanks for the recommendation

OMG! I just tried it and its actually fun. Thank you so much :)

And rember Pokemon Go uses osm for their data so you are making an impact on them too.

Yep - been using it for a week or two myself. Nearly 400 points so far!

Hmm. I dislike that it uploads every thing as a separate change. I much more prefer editing the whole area and saving it as one neat package, rather than posting hundreds of "this is road is made of asphalt" posts.

So it's not for me, but if that helps to make OSM better, I'm all for it!

Maybe I could make a separate account without neat history and from time to time click some icons in the app though. That probably wouldn't bother me as much.

If you'd like to be able to search for house addresses in osmand+ you can download these map packs.. A total life saver..

https://github.com/pnoll1/osmand_map_creation

Does anyone know of OSM street view equivalents like KartaView allow for campus street view? It seems like it's only available for roads you can access with a car.

Just downloaded this today and going nuts making contributions in my neighborhood. Thanks so much for the suggestion!

Another recommendation, especially for addresses and points of interest, is https://every-door.app/

It's not as pretty as StreetConplete but it's fine to work with.

I’m still missing this on iOS, we do have “go map!!” Which is great, but that’s a bit of a different kind of app for me.

This yes, ever since someone mentioned StreetComplete, I have been using it and love it ! Super easy to contribute. The only thing missing is the ability to add nodes. But that I usually do on a computer/ or using Organic Maps android app.

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I've been using Go Map! but it keeps crashing... Maybe I'll try Streetcomplete if it's on apple.

Very cool, downloaded and will start using It!

I just installed StreetComplete because of your post and it's a lot of fun! I guess I'll be doing this on my walks from now on :-)

It seems like a very helpful service. I don't use cell data which means no GPS to contribute to it. I only use apps through wi-fi exclusively.