I first learned of Street-Complete here and I really like it.

It’s satisfying to walk around, complete little tasks, and get prizes, scratching a similar itch to Pokemon Go.

Stuck waiting for someone? Add opening hours for a few local businesses.

Have a long walk ahead of you? See if you can add/check house addresses as fast as you can walk.

Want to walk off a few beers before heading home? Complete some tasks in the bar street.

Its a very constructive way to “be right” on the internet.

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This is the most fun app in the world. I hope they keep building on top of this, it’s amazing! Plus, being able to see new “quests” popup as you edit on OSM/edit? Amazing!!

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If there was some way for the app to create teams trying to fill out details like in Pokemon Go, that would be crazy exciting. Would be difficult to balance that so it didn’t incentivize adding junk… Maybe having a third party keeping players in check? Not sure, but the possibility is tantalizing!

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@inbeesee @openstreetmap It does have a team mode, but I think that’s just a transient thing.

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@InsertUser @inbeesee the team mode just makes sure 2 people don’t gets asked the same thing. Otherwise it’s wasted work

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There’s also SCEE, a more advanced version of StreetComplete, and Vespucci, another very powerful application for submitting OSM entries.

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While StreetComplete is very careful with the quests, my experience with SCEE was much worse. As an example, with current SCEE 58.2 the building color quest is still buggy. The brown, black and white choices are showing wrong colored illustrations.

Therefore SCEE is not a recommendation for me.

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@redd @Andromxda Did you mention this on GitHub? That should be solvable.

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Fdroid says that it is bound to jawg.io for tiles. What are the chances that we are giving our data to a company who will take it away from us, or is just using us for free labour?

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@jaxxed @vatlark hello. Long time OpenStreetMapper here! 👋🏻👋🏻

There are problems with corporate influence in OSM. Jawg is not on the radar.

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It is free labor. However it benefits us all and there isn’t any alternatives. I don’t think OSM is going anywhere soon. It is has benefits for any people and industries.

Fun fact OSM has had lots of issues with hostile take overs. They now have a dedicated committee on the subject https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Special_Committee_on_Takeover_Protection

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@jaxxed @vatlark @openstreetmap
Very slim. But their privacy policies are online if you’re concerned.

You free labour all goes to the OpenStreetMap database licensed under the Open DataBase License.

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Yes, you link your OSM account to StreetComplete and it adds your contributions via your OSM account. Same with Vespucci.

When you log into OSM you can see all the contributions pushed by StreetComplete.

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or is just using us for free labour?

It pushes updates to openstreetmap.

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Can I throw in that once you get your stride with Streetcomplete you’ll love Every Door where you can add Shops and features pretty easily. They really complement each other.

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Im also interested in Mangrove Reviews. Have to find more out about that.

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The thing I like about mapcomplete is the ability to add photos and reviews for Bars and restaurants. that’s really good.

I find each application has its niche and I switch between them depending whether Im walking around or filling.in details.

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Thank you for the tip. Installed.

Ta add another one: StreetMeasure. But I think that will be suggested in SC if you don’t have it installed?

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Yes … StreetMeaure is very useful - Though I’d prefer it to be available from F-droid - I wonder why its not? Same developer right?

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I looked it up in F-Droid. It is only available in the IzzyOnDroid repo. StreetMeasure relies on ARCode and the Google Play Services for AR, so it is against F-Droids inclusion policy.

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Everything #OpenStreetMap related is welcome: software releases, showing of your work, questions about how to tag something, as long as it has to do with OpenStreetMap or OpenStreetMap-related software.

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

Join OpenStreetMap and start mapping: https://www.openstreetmap.org.

There are many communication channels about OSM, many organized around a certain country or region. Discover them on https://openstreetmap.community

https://mapcomplete.org is an easy-to-use website to view, edit and add points (such as shops, restaurants and others)

https://learnosm.org/en/ has a lot of information for beginners too.

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