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Whenever we bike ride gravel roads, we always correct the surface.
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But, as soon as I expand out, there are strip malls with really outdated information.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.
Street Complete is definitely the gateway drug here, very simple and beginner-friendly way to get started
My goal last year was to rank in the top 100 of my country.
I'm proud to say I'm nowhere near it. There's others who have taken the challenge, and I'm all for it!
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OSMAnd~ also has the option to edit.
I did it a few times, it really isn't hard! Just adding or fixing POIs though; I wouldn't know how to add or fix a wrongly placed house/path etc.
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