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Openstreetmap for Canal Boaters (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For some reason despite not owning one I have alot of interaction with Canal Boaters.

They are always interested in information about places and services along canals and I was trying to think of the best way of explaining how the contribute and use Openstreetmap

Of course contributing is easy - I just recommend mapcomplete.org, everydoor app, and street complete (less so as its road related)

And then I recommend an App like OSMAnd to use Openstreetmap - But for Canal Boaters specifically - Is there any way they could use layers or searches, any tips, tricks or Apps specifically get information that would be useful for them or be useful if in a canal boat?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

@abeorch @openstreetmap
I don't know if it's any good but in theory I think OsmAnd can route over canals in its 'Nautical' theme.

It supposedly shows amenity=sanitary\_dump\_station so if a pump out has that tag it could be handy for some users. but at the moment all it's doing for me is crash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The campersite theme on mapcomplete shows sanitary dump stations as well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

@pietervdvn yeah I was just trying to create one for the equivalent waterways tags, but I'm finding the studio really confusing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Would you mind on elaborating how you would expect it to work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

@pietervdvn When I wrote that I'd got stuck trying to add questions _into_ the title. Which obviously went very badly.

I ended up looking at another example to see where the various bits of information were meant to go and then got the hang of it a bit more.

I also ran into some things where I thought I was completely misunderstanding another thing and it turned out to be a weird bug. I've typed up the one I could reproduce, but I also had e.g. 'TypeError: s[h[1]] is undefined"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

@pietervdvn

I managed it, had to look at some examples to see how things were meant to work. I'll see if I can cobble together the layers I have done into a theme.