Re: [OSM-dev] Simple app for "making contributions" (not to display maps)

Am 29.06.2016 um 14:33 schrieb Rory McCann: > Hi, > > One could claim that Maps.me is an attempt to make a simple to use > smartphone app for non-technical people to contribute data to OSM. It > doesn't require aerial imagery, nor always-on internet access. > It is weird that everybody is

Re: [OSM-dev] Simple app for "making contributions" (not to display maps)

Hi Simon, Rory, Guillaume, Frederik, Martin, Mikael, Thank you for your input - that's very helpful and appreciated. Let me try a digest reply. Overall, I'm thinking of something much simpler than displaying maps. Overall, there's (at least) two different areas: (1) Traces (2) Tags / resolving

Re: [OSM-dev] Simple app for "making contributions" (not to display maps)

On 2016-06-29 14:04, Bjoern Hassler wrote: > Is there interest in (or is anybody working on) creating an very > simple-to-use app that allows "non-technical" users to contribute OSM > information? While I have to note that their web interface and processing backend is proprietary (afaik),

Re: [OSM-dev] Simple app for "making contributions" (not to display maps)

sent from a phone > Il giorno 29 giu 2016, alle ore 14:04, Bjoern Hassler > ha scritto: > > Is there interest in (or is anybody working on) creating an very > simple-to-use app that allows "non-technical" users to contribute OSM > information? there are some simple

Re: [OSM-dev] Simple app for "making contributions" (not to display maps)

Bjoern, not need to stress the inaccuracies of GPS - GPS traces is how this whole OpenStreetMap started, long before we even had aerial imagery. To this day some of the older hands in OSM consider using aerial imagery a not quite sportsmanlike way of adding data a.k.a. "cheating" ;) On

Re: [OSM-dev] Simple app for "making contributions" (not to display maps)

Hi Bjoern, I'm the main developer MapContrib (https://github.com/MapContrib/MapContrib). One of the main purposes of the project is to be simple for users. You're searching something I plan to implement in MapContrib (but I don't know when...), see

Re: [OSM-dev] Simple app for "making contributions" (not to display maps)

Hi, One could claim that Maps.me is an attempt to make a simple to use smartphone app for non-technical people to contribute data to OSM. It doesn't require aerial imagery, nor always-on internet access. Rory On 29/06/16 14:04, Bjoern Hassler wrote: > Hi all, > > first post to the list - hope

[OSM-dev] Simple app for "making contributions" (not to display maps)

Hi all, first post to the list - hope this is of interest. The background to my question is working is areas where map coverage is poor (e.g. parts of Africa). Sometimes only low-res satellite/bing imagery is available, sometimes obscured by clouds. In some low populated areas a GPS trace could