There is another way too: Long-press on a point on the map, and from the *overflow* button, select any one option from the following:
- Take an audio note (read aloud the boards, and record them). - Take a video note (record an entire street) - Take a photo (snap name-plates in a complex) Later, once you reach home, use your browser and edit OSM using the notes you made. This is very useful to record multiple POIs along a street. I have done this to add many POIs in Bangalore and the tourist spots I visit. On Friday, March 24, 2017 at 4:05:26 PM UTC+5:30, Nagesh Aras wrote: > > 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.
