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[–] [email protected] 137 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

All of you are invited on [email protected]

Also checkout the many editing tools, such as https://mapcomplete.org, https://streetcomplete.app,...

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I successfully used Every Door during my holidays to contribute

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There’s a small learning curve I wish some bothered to understand first. Does this app help? The part of this I don’t like is vacationers leaving useless names like ‘Mango lady’, ‘many street vendors’ for a block, or ‘local restaurant’ since they can’t read the sign as opposed marking up the cuisine type, maybe adding an English description, & leaving the name blank. Nobody expects uploads to be perfect but Bangkok is littered with this noise that makes it hard to follow or find things.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

It takes effort and knowledge to make good contributions, this app is just a tool to do that.

I can only say I myself try to make valuable contributions, some other people might care less.

[–] joostjakob 6 points 3 months ago

I think EveryDoor requires some relatively deep understanding of OSM before actually being a useful tool. So edits like this should be rare with that tool. Many of the edits like this are from when MapsMe was very popular and suddenly introduced editing, without enough nuance in the process. Bad edits do happen everywhere, you need a good balance between people who data curation and newbies making beginner mistakes. In some places, there's a lack of experienced people maintaining the data.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Every Door

thank you for sharing, definitely the easiest for Android from my research :-)
Note: there is a comparison of editor apps here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Comparison_of_editors

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Thank you for sharing the links!