The mapcomplete shopping theme is pretty close to what all of you want, I think? MapComplete is built around the concept of a ‘theme’, which can contain various layers and allows to add a new Point. Some care has to be given as sometimes a ‘closely related’ concept might get added with wrong tags, so questions and all have to be crafted very carefully.

@SimonPoole: cool statistics there! Right now, MapComplete is being developed part-time as freelancer. For the very first incarnation, I was around $5/changeset - but your figures won’t be too far of.

Hi! Make sure to check out mapcomplete.osm.be/aed which helps people to quickly add AEDs without OSM-knowledge.

@PlayzinhoAgro: another question: who is gonna implement this? Or is this just a wild idea. There are very little devs who know the Rails Port enough to do meaningfull work on it, let alone who have time to do it!

You’re also welcome to have a look at MapComplete.osm.be, which I’m the dev of and could use some UX-feedback on

This looks awesome!

I’m a bit wary of too much social media feel and too much gamification. We should avoid to have people add junk edits just too see the statistics go up! (E.g. someone asking how much edits they need for the free osmand live, or pokemon-go parks). Some of them convert into real and decent mappers though, so it truly is the excercise of finding the right balance.

Having people feel valued for their (actual) work however would be great!

Google Maps does a great job with this by indicating that ‘XXX people saw the image you added and YYY people saw the opening hours you added to a shop! Great job!”

Ofc, gathering this kind of stats is hard in a decentralized, privacy-sensitive community…

Congrats - that is quite a job.

MapComplete has an etymology map too, so feel free to explore your work

Cool, but I have added that humonguous hash as well, as it is that hash which contains the actual configuration for mapcomplete to show the vets.

BTW, these themes can be deployed really fast with https://pietervdvn.github.io/mc/legacy/070/customGenerator.html

Allright, you triggered me.

Have fun with this one I created for you

@lonvia:

I’m in the same boat as Roland with development of MapComplete. I’m quite passionate about it too, but funding of it isn’t really a problem as there is a market for tailored, easy to use OpenStreetMap-editors (!). The entire project started of by with a small fund from someone, and since then I’ve had many requests.

However, it is true that this model certainly has drawbacks (such as bus factor), but being able to have a good vision of what I want the project to be is a huge benefit and allows for lots of innovation.

Hi Roland,

I’ll probably join the next meeting, but I’m having a few issues with that:

• The email addresses engineering@osm.org and engineering@openstreetmap.org do bounce as undeliverable ( host a.mx.openstreetmap.org[212.110.172.32] said: 550 Unrouteable address (in reply to RCPT TO command)
• On the EWG wiki page, the biweekly meetings are said to be on monday. However, the next mentioned date is 2021-10-16 (which is a saturday). I suspect either a typo or a one-time different day - could you please clarify?

Kind regards, Pieter

I do think that your basic premise “OpenStreetMap is a map” is incorrect. It is rather a database of geodata.

If one company doesn’t need 99% of that data, they are free to take a copy, and remove what they need from their working copy.

The “core” project is already separate and run by the foundation. They get funding via different means (memberships and big and small donations). They make sure the core infra keeps running (the database + some basic tile rendering). This leaves room to lots of small parties to make a living via various means. Both my freelance jobs as my day-to-day job rely on OSM-centric services. Most of the people such as us do give some donations/are members of the foundation - not to mention that there are some big companies with deep pockets who sponsor too. Funding is not a problem at the moment ;)

At last, I’m not aware that OSM itself publishes geodata in the shapefile-format; although some comanies do.

Thanks for all the compliments!

@Koen Rijnsent: have a look here for more statistics. If you really want to dive into the graphs, there are even more graphs here

WOOW, impressive! This is really nice

Cool!

The ‘belgian fan’ or ‘european fan’ is exactly what is in the Sint-Amandsstraat. I’ll pass by tomorrow.

It will be difficult though, they are redoing the area and will probably mean the end of the European fan in Bruges. The replacement patterns are often the simpler “bogens” or “arcs”…

@giggls: make sure to check https://github.com/pietervdvn/MapComplete/blob/master/Docs/Making_Your_Own_Theme.m

If you get stuck or have questions, come by on telegram.

I made a mapcomplete theme for table tennis tables once upon a time.

However, there is now also the more complete theme for any sport pitch - allthough that is a bit a work in progress (it still needs an english version and a specific icon per sport)

Hey ftrebien,

Cool that it is being picked up! This diary was one of my first posts when I just started with OSM - has it been three years already?

You can use the images above and consider them CC0, although they aren’t of great quality.

Are you still missing a few patterns? I can try to snap a decent picture of them.

Also: congrats on writing this all out on the wiki. I’m a bit short in time (due to this project) to engage in this topic specifically though - and I don’t feel like I’ll be able to contribute much on it anyways, it already looks great ;)

That is how we all started out!

Welcome! It is really fun ;)

Snapchat is really slow to update - up to several monts.

Check https://mapcomplete.osm.be/shops for your shop to

Hey!

You might be interested in https://mapcomplete.osm.be/shops

It is made for surveying in the field. If you what another question or order of fields let me know.

I have a small editor for artworks here, which shows wikimedia-images: https://pietervdvn.github.io/MapComplete/artworks.html?z=16&lat=48.208&lon=16.371