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StreetComplete is an application allowing to contribute to OSM by answering simple question. It makes possible to contribute without learning about tagging schemes and without learning how to handle interface of more general editor like JOSM, iD or Vespucci.

I contributed to StreetComplete in past. Recently I received a grant that will allow me to spend more time on improving it.

Grant is funded by a NLnet as part of NGI Zero grants. StretComplete grant is mentioned by NLnet at https://nlnet.nl/thema/NGIZeroDiscovery.html and https://nlnet.nl/project/StreetComplete/ pages. It will allow me to spend far more time on improving StreetComplete.

I will participate in project as usual, sending pull requests that will be reviewed and accepted (or rejected) by StreetComplete author, Tobias Zwick and minor changes commited directly (and still subject as review).

Note that I selected topics of work to be done (based mostly on open issues on the bug tracker) on my own, and it was accepted without any requested changes. I am sole beneficiary of the grant.

Total grant will depend on how much I will manage to do before deadline.

See osm.org/user/Mateusz%20Konieczny/diary/368849 for earlier, very similar entry.

I created osm.wiki/NLnet and submitted it OSM weekly as it seems to me that other OSM projects also may be funded.

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Comment from Mateusz Konieczny on 18 October 2021 at 19:12

Note that grant is contructed in following way

  • time based for things like UX testing and research of technology
  • fixed amount for doing things like implementing specific features

That means that if as part of an implementation I will get distracted and start discussion on mailing list or spend time on related mapping - I am not going to be paid more.

In other words I am not getting paid at all for OSM mapping, OSM Wiki editing or tagging mailing list posting.

For example in case of osm.wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Advanced_cycle_barrier_tagging#single_vs_squeeze I would receive the same funding if I would ignore poor tag name and implement it with cycle_barrier=squeeze

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