I’ve made some good progress mapping out Sebeka in Minnesota over the past couple months :D www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/46.6301/-95.0900
I’d love to finish mapping all the buildings but it starts to feel like a chore :s
If I get a chance I’ll try help out there as well.
but it starts to feel like a chore :s
I find that this happens with me when I start trying to add too much detail from the start. I’ll get overwhelmed at how much there still is and then it feels like a chore.
I’ve started just adding building outlines and then once that’s done I’ll go add some more detail to a couple places.
I’m gonna be giving a bit of contrarian advise here: don’t force yourself. No-one asked you to do this all, so take it easy and one bit at a time. If you are a volunteer, just have some fun with it. When you don’t feel like continuing anymore, don’t.
Another piece of advice: “if you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together”. (But the latter is more work). If you live in a medium-sized (or bigger) city, maybe there are a few people interested in joining? Post to the local facebook group and do a small gathering with a cup of tea and map together.
In Belgium, we are running a slow campaign where we are importing the official building dataset. Most mappers import a bit of the buildings and do a general update as well. (BTW: we have permission to use this data and did a thorough discussion with the local community, so the import guidelines are followed)
There is also Go, Map! which introduced some comparable features within the last few versions. But it's also far away from the comfort and user friendlyness of StreetComplete.
Mmm, yes. The solution to giant tech companies having all the market share is for there to be a THIRD giant tech company with all the market share. I mean I guess a triopoly is better than a duopoly but it's hardly a solution.
@HubertManne Qwant.com uses "qwant maps", which is basically OpenStreetMap in a different branding.
DuckDuckGo has Apple Maps as provider, which is partially based on OSM (but, meh). However, the bang !osm will take you to OpenStreetMap (and !wosm brings you to the OSM-wiki)
OSMand is great, I use it all the time for driving and also hiking - it’s surprisingly good for footpaths.
Out of the box it’s not great at UK postcodes (some are in the dataset but not all). However, there’s an open source list of post codes defined as points of interest that you can import, which means you can just search (offline) for any post code and it will take you straight to it.
People from other countries with different systems may not appreciate how useful this is, in most cases if you navigate to a UK post code you can see your destination so no further information is required.
Hey I live in the UK and that’s super helpful! Definitely a feature I’ll need so will have to figure this out although the setup looks a little complicated at least for only moderately techy people
Yeah that didn’t work with the elevation profile, it stayed more or less like in the screenshot. But the problem seems to have disappeared now, thank you.
Thank you. Somehow the problem solved itself, i reckon thete was something weird with the track, it haf a lot of little tunnels, you can see that the grades are also all over the place in the screenshot. Maybe it dipped the altitude to sea level or something, but i felt like it had been like this all day. Thanks again.
*edit: it is also no longer saying -65mas lowest altitude but -9m even though i’ve been riding downhill since the screenshot and it actually goes down to sea level now inside the widget section.
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