Hi Try *OsmAnd *app (link <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.osmand>). You can also use the latest nightly from here <http://download.osmand.net/latest-night-build/OsmAnd-nightly.apk>. This is offline GPS navigation app. Feature-rich and user-friendly.
It has a built-in OSM editor plugin. 1. Activate the plugin, using the Start> Plugins> OSm Editing 2. Go to its Settings, and enter your OSM username and password. 3. In the Settings menu, activate the *offline editing* option. This allows to create new POIs offline, and upload them when you have the WiFi connection. 4. Now switch back to the OsmAnd's main screen. Long-press on any point on the map. A card pops up from bottom of the screen. Tap on the *overflow* button (three vertical dots, at far right). From the context menu that pops up, select *Create POI* option. Enter the data and save. 5. If you have selected the *offline editing* option (step-2), then the POIs will be added to OSM only when you upload them. For this, tap on any POI, and select the *Upload* option. Hope that helps. Regards, Nagesh On Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 7:11:58 PM UTC+5:30, Shrinivasan T wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I am shrini from Chennai. Joined datameet group today. > > > When exploring on creating maps in Tamil using OpenSteetMaps [ > https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2017/03/04/let-us-create-maps-in-tamil/ ] > found that the current data available on OSM is not equivalent with Google > Maps. > > We can not copy data from Google Maps and import to OSM as it is a big > copyright violation. Yes. We dont have control over the data for the area > where we live. > > We can do the following. > > 1. Look for the data sources who may have the data about the streets, > villages, cities. I think think the government departments like Postal, > Revenue,Rural development, Public Works may have these data. How can we ask > them to share the data in public? Will a RTI help on this? > > I am seeing some data collected by reading our archiees. > Is it possible to share the available data in a single blogpost or page? > > > > 2. Add the data manually. > > By this way, we can add any data manually, edit, improve the existing > data. But editing on the browser is not possible for many. > > It will be nice if we have a mobile app to add data to OSM. When I had a > smartphone, few years ago, searched for a OSM mobile app. Cant find any > app, which helped to edit OSM. > > I dont use smartphone nowadays. > > If you have a smartphoe, can you search for the apps, which can help to > edit the OSM easily? > > The app should be very simple. The user should should open the app. It > should capture the latitude, longitude from its GPS or mobile tower. Then > it should ask for the name of the building, building number, type of the > place, street name, area name,city name, if required a photo, etc. Once the > user entered these data, it should be synced on OSM. Contribution should > very simple as filling few forms only. > > If we have such app, we can create communities/volunteers to add data to > OSM with their smartphones. Just open app, fill data. They are done. > > If there is no such easy editing app for OSM, it is high time to create > such one. If you are a mobile developer, please create such app and help to > build the Openstreetmaps as content rich. > > Wondering how the Google, Apple, Bing maps collected data. What kind of > mobile app they used, what ate the data they collected. If you have worked > for these maps, please share more details about them. It will help a lot. > > There may be other easier, better ways to add data to OSM. Please share > the details or connect with the communities. > > Let us build content rich Open Street Maps. > > > > > > > -- > Regards, > T.Shrinivasan > > > My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com > Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com > > Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : > http://FreeTamilEbooks.com > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.