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@OsmThis: Twitter to OSM

Posted by sashazykov on 7 May 2014 in English.

I started working on @osmthis twitter account which allows to post any geotagged tweets to OSM as notes. For instance, it’s possible to use skitch/twitter to publish photos of cafe bills. These bills usually contain usable information as the cafe’s address, phone, website etc. To use it you just need to mention @osmthis in your tweet.

Examples:

This project is OpenSource. You can find it at github.

Discussion

په 7 May 2014 په 15:09 باندې د Stalfur تبصره

Looks very good, I’ll add this to the Mapping Botswana guide for example!

په 7 May 2014 په 17:36 باندې د Richard تبصره

Brilliant!

په 8 May 2014 په 03:03 باندې د maning تبصره

https://twitter.com/sashazykov/status/460662527945232386 -> osm.org/note/158563

Fixed!

په 9 May 2014 په 14:12 باندې د HannesHH تبصره

Great idea!

په 14 May 2014 په 17:16 باندې د DaCor تبصره

This is excellent!

په 17 May 2014 په 13:38 باندې د Stalfur تبصره

Tried this for the first time, not seeing any note. https://twitter.com/jbjensson/status/467372597605588992

په 17 May 2014 په 13:59 باندې د sashazykov تبصره

Because the tweet is not geotagged. There are several non-geotagged tweets in logs. @osmthis needs to answer with an error message to these tweets, but this feature is not ready yet.

په 18 May 2014 په 00:07 باندې د Stalfur تبصره

I see, thought the geo-tagging could be read from image, my mistake :)

په 20 May 2014 په 21:50 باندې د Rps333 تبصره

Sounds great. But just tried it, what am I doing wrong. I’m @rps333 on Twitter. Cheers.

په 21 May 2014 په 01:14 باندې د sashazykov تبصره

Rps333: Your tweets are protected. Probably, it will be enough if you follow @osmthis, though I am not sure. We also need to allow sending tweets using direct messages. I will add this to todo list.

په 27 May 2014 په 11:08 باندې د Stephan-Hartl تبصره

Hi,

I just found this site and it sounds great to me. I agree, sending tweets using DMs is neccessary and in my view should be a high priority. I for myself would use twitter to add information to osm notes, but I don’t want to bother my followers with these tweets. Can you give an estimate, when this possibility will be available?

Cheers, Nuffy

په 27 May 2014 په 16:58 باندې د sashazykov تبصره

Nuffy, you don’t need to bother your followers. If a tweet begins with “@osmthis” only those friends who follow both you and @osmthis will see it.

په 1 June 2014 په 10:13 باندې د Stephan-Hartl تبصره

I’m feeling old … I’m using Twitter now for about a year, but didn’t know that … Thanks for the information.

Nuffy