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Whenever we bike ride gravel roads, we always correct the surface.
Can this be done offline on Android devices and uploaded later? We ask because we currently have no data on our phone and it would be useful to edit when out, and then upload when we get back home.
It's possible with StreetComplete since you can choose when to submit your quests
Oh, awesome! We will do it when out and about then.
I do believe as long as you've opened your app to download the quests first it works, although I have not tried that.
You could also look at https://organicmaps.app/nl/ if that has offline editing for maps
Is there any way to do this on iDevices?
EveryDoor works well on iOS for simple things like updating or adding shops etc.
"Go Map!!" is another one, and while I find it's interface a bit harder to work with, it has a "Quests" setting, which lets you configure a filter of missing tags that show up on the map.
Thanks so much! 🙂
+1 for Go Map!!, it’s what I use to map on the go.
For anything more complex it can’t do such as multipolygon edits or aligning nodes in a line or other polishing I then send the change to JOSM on the computer if necessary.
People have suggested https://organicmaps.app/nl/ to me which should have an editing function (I have not checked out the app yet)
I noticed one problem with the application; if you make a mistake you cant fix it yourself or cancel, even if you turn off automatic sending. There should be one more step before sending so you can review and edit your work first.
I suggest using streetcomplete for more basic things, it has an undo button!
I do use it, but I cant find undo anywhere from it.
Bottom left of "Street Complete"?
I have no buttons there, unless you mean phone's own back button which does abort whatever one is doing.
But what i mean is there is no undo for things you have already sent. Like for example, I noticed that a restauraunt seems to have slightly wrong opening times and I fixed them. Then I noticed after sending them that I was looking at wrong restauraunt and had to just make an issue for someone else to fix. I would rather just have undone the mistake or cancelled the sending since I have automatic submits off.
Here is a sequence of steps.
- Make an edit
- See undo button on bottom left
- Click undo
Well, now I feel a bit stupid since it was at that obvious place. Has it been there always or added recently?
Has been for a long time.
Sorry that I made stupid claims based on my own ignorance. But somehow this is the first time I have noticed that button
Thank you, and I hope you find it useful!
I'm trying, but it's hard to stay motivated when the information on a lot of local areas I visit are so damn old.
There are entire areas where it looks like it acquired the data 5-10 years ago from some other mapping software (Google, Bing, something else), and hasn't updated since. It didn't have all of my street information for my neighborhood area, so I started there first. I didn't really mind it too much, because, hey, Google didn't have it filled in several years ago, either. I started using Vespucci and drew out some of the houses and streets.
But, as soon as I expand out, there are strip malls with really outdated information. StreetComplete tries to ask me questions about these places that were replaced long ago, and it doesn't have the tools to allow me to carve out sections of the strip mall, since it only thinks there are two shops, but there's now 8-10 shops. So, I go back to Vespucci and try to fill it out, but I only have so much time before I'm going to some other location, and I don't really have the time to draw out even the map details in the place where I'm parked. I feel like I'm the only one that bothers and the entire city is out-of-date. It's overwhelming.
If bots somehow got this information back then, then why can't it pull this data now? Certain sections and entire cities desperately need a refresh.
You can add shops in the "Places" overlay.
Perhaps something to bring up on the forums to see if anybody has input on how to do this! I personally haven't had such a bad case locally yet. But you're having a great impact updating it as most likely people pass up on using OSM based services because of it, and by having it up to date it may encourage those people to switch in the future.
If I wanted to add some off-road bike trails to OSM, how would I got about doing that?
I'd personally use the web editor at https://www.openstreetmap.org/ Make an account, go to the zone you want to edit and press the edit button. Add a line and once the line is added you can add a type to it (you can check the wiki if you don't know which one to use)
You can enable tracking on streetcomplete that will track your walk/bike/whatever and you can use that as a guide on the web app should it be hard via satellite (do note that this tracking is posted publicly).
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