I’ve been enjoying the Notes features of OsmAnd, both for adding new ones and even more for finding nearby ones when I’m out and about. Every OSMer should tell all their friends to lodge notes! :-) I’ve been training everyone I can (two people so far; maybe I need more friends).
I also only recently noticed that people near where I live are actually leaving notes (they weren’t last time I looked a year or two ago.) Which is great, and I’m trying to fix them all. Many seem to come from MAPS.ME, and sometimes are in the wrong spots or are spurious (most commonly saying a thing is gone when it’s not). But more are useful than aren’t.
So I’ve added the RSS feed of notes for this area to my normal daily news aggregator, and hopefully will do a better job of keeping up to date with people’s corrections and spam.
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2018년 6월 5일 13:53에 Harry Wood님의 의견
I agree. Notes are brilliant. I gave them special mention in my recent talk on ways of contributing to OpenStreetMap, trying to leave it towards the end so that people remember it even if some of the other suggestions look scary and complicated.
I feel like there’s even greater potential than we are currently realising. There’s things we could do to make adding notes using the website better (and make the notes that are added better), although we should be careful to resist making it more complicated. It could be integrated into “report a problem” links on other map sites better. And lots of tools we could build (or perhaps roll improvements into the main site) for mappers to browse all the notes. Lots of untapped potential there.