Good work! Always nice to see address imports

Isn’t this person effectively doxxing themselves? Should this diary entry be deleted?

Hello everyone. If anyone is still reading thia, I’d like to mention that I have just released version 0.2 of the app, with lots of new features.

There are a few more features left to add, but after that, if there aren’t any major bugs, I’ll ask F-droid to package the app.

So it would be great if people cpuld try and test the app to see if it works. If you are going to survey, please only do short surveys in case something goes wrong

Thanks, IpswichMapper

Also, don’t try and forcefully transition away from twitter / facebook / youtube in favor of the fediverse. Using the fediverse for OSM is nice, however accounts on conventional media must be kept. By deleting them you are effectively deplatformating yourselves. Not a good idea when OSM really needs more contributors.

A Openstreetmap gitea would be really nice. I have currenlty posted my OSM-related software (SwiftAddress) to Github, because I am worried that otherwise it wouldn’t get as much recognision and issue reports, since alternatives require you to create an account most people don’t have.

Conversly, openstreetmap gitea would allow you to sign in using your openstreetmap account, and since everyone who is trying to use SwiftAddress already has an openstreetmap account, the “accounts issue” is somewhat fixed.

Can you add the location you are referring to in your diary entry (it lets you choose a location at the bottom of the entry when you try and edit it).

Otherwise, nice work.

@westnordst It is still a good idea to develop something more efficient for streetcomplete,as streetcomplete will be used far, far more than SwiftAddress

If there is a shop, you can change thr building type in JOSM after the survey. Leaving a note with shop details or photo should allow you to add the shop (and then change the building type later).

If there is a bug please open a github issue instead of trying to explain it here. It will be more organised there.

Check if there is a folder called “keypad mapper”.

Otherwise there is probably some bug

Just releeased a new version with the zoom, recent and reorient buttons :)

I can’t see a focus on GPS button tho

Just added this feature. You will be able to use it in the next release (v0.1.4)

Upon first opening my map was centered on a different part of the world.

Currently the app centers to your location when you open the app.(provided you don’t tap on the map while it is centering). This has worked for other people, so I don’t know what the problem is here. If you want to try and see that working, make sure to remove the app from your recents and try opening it again.

Also with my fat fingers, I’d appreciate if I could fix the orientation.

Yes, I plan to add this

In OSMPad I liked how you could follow it, then place your marker and it would jump back to GPS afterwards.

Wouldn’t this be annoying? For example, if you have a terrace of 4 housenumbers, you could add them in quick succession (long pressing on the arrow adds a housenumber that is 2 integers higher than the previous one. This increment of “2” can be changed in the keypad using “modify increment”). However, if the map snapped back to your location, that would be quite annoying. You would have to go back to the terrace everytime.

It doesn’t show GPS.

I don’t understand what the probelm with the GPS is. I used the default code provided by OSMdroid to add a location overlay, and it seems to work fine for me.

What type of location are you getting? Are you only getting Internet/Bluetooth based location (e.g. Google Location Services)? Are you getting location from your built in GPS sensor?

Just added street prediction using reverse geocoding & fixed the increment buttons in the latest release.

if you are using the app in portrait mode, and once you switch to landscape, it loses your location and shows the initial zoom level

I have disabled landscape mode completely now. The Keypad does not fit at all in landscape mode, there is no point trying to get it to work.

he app doesn’t keep the name of the street.

I have just fixed that, it will work in the next release (v0.1.2)

I said ‘VERY’ because in bilanguage countries, streets must be written in Cyrillic - when you have English settings on your phone, it might be a tough task;

The old “Keypad Mapper 3” had this feature. It is definately something I will implement soon, it would be really useful not having to type out the street-name every time you change street.

There are a list of missing features on the github page.

there is no button for houses without house numbers (more info: nohousenumber=yes);

Currently in the keypad there is a swipe up option for “housename” but that hasn’t been implemented. If there is no housenumber or housename or any form of address there, you can leave a note and add that in a desktop editor. At that point there isn’t really an address there anyway.

f you have the last number ‘192a’, and you press the ‘+’ button, the app crashes;

The plus button is crashing for me also, I’ll fix this.

I’ve now releases the app on github:

https://github.com/IpswichMapper/SwiftAddress/releases

You can find the APK under “assets”

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65791074/failed-to-query-the-value-of-property-packagename-manifest-file-does-not-exis

I’ve uploaded my code to github. Can’t get the app to build, so I can’t generate a signed apk. (However the app can run however). Above is the github issue I created. If I can get it to work, I will release a signed apk.

How does the app decide what is left and what is right?

It doesn’t. The only functional purpose of the left and right buttons is to remember the previous housenumber you entered on that side of the road so that you can increment it.

For example, if I entered “24” on the left side, pressing the left button again will show “24” as a hint in the textbox. You can then increment up to “25” by pressing the plus button (and pressing it again to go to “26”). That works like streetcomplete.

Housenumbers are placed on the map underneath the crosshair. You position the crosshair to where the house actually is, then add the address. (This is why alternative background imageries to the default osm-carto is useful, so that you can see where the houses are even if they aren’t drawn in OSM).

I have a few suggestions on the interface: * When pressing < or >, does the keypad come up on fullscreen immediately? If yes, I’d suggest to have only a minimal interface with +/- buttons first (it looks like this is the case in your first screenshot)

It comes up as fullscreen immediately, however, my solution to that is to implement onFling and long press actions for those buttons.

• Long press will automatically add a housenumber to the map that is a set increment higher/lower than your previous housenumber. For example, if your increment is 2, and your previous housenumber is “24”, long pressing will automatically add “26” with the same housenumber.
• Swipe action does this same thing, however it also adds the previous Building levels. This is in case the address you want to add has the same building levels as the previous address.
• The increment & streetname can be set in the Keypad. This is useful because you can check the increment and change the streetname when you change streets, and then use the longpress or swipe features for all the other housenumbers on the street.

@westnordost

Hello, I have been developing my own android app to try and be extremely efficient for adding housenubers. You can read more about it on my diary entry about the software

Here are some screenshots:

P.S. Can you think about any names I could give to this app?

Yes, you are correct, the diary entry didn’t go over merged addresses with buildings. The shortcut is probably different for you, but you can find the tool by going to top menu bar and then: “Data” –> Merge Address Points