Skip to content

This issue was moved to a discussion.

You can continue the conversation there. Go to discussion →

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Can StreetComplete be used for adding/confirming new POIs? #5389

Closed
NKAmapper opened this issue Nov 26, 2023 · 1 comment
Closed

Can StreetComplete be used for adding/confirming new POIs? #5389

NKAmapper opened this issue Nov 26, 2023 · 1 comment

Comments

@NKAmapper
Copy link

NKAmapper commented Nov 26, 2023

Use case

I have a number of files with POIs (nodes) which would be useful in OSM, for example all kindergartens in Norway. High quality data, geocoded, tagged and import plan already reviewed. But each node would benefit from verification by a human + slight adjustment of coordinates to get a sensible location for the node at the given address + possibly minor edit of the name tag.
It can be done in MapRoulette, but StreetComplete has a much higher usage in my community. Data can be provided in a geojson file.
Import plan

Proposed Solution

Is this type of task supported by StreetComplete?

@NKAmapper NKAmapper changed the title Can StreetComplete be used for adding/confirming new POIs Can StreetComplete be used for adding/confirming new POIs? Nov 26, 2023
@westnordost
Copy link
Member

Short answer: No.

Long answer: Theoretically yes, but something along these lines would need to be implemented first. Since there are possibly many people with a list of POIs from a third party data source (that is license compatible), it would make sense to have some sort of backend in which these could be managed so that on StreetComplete-side, there would just be one quest that talks with one API to get a list of to-be-confirmed new POI places.

Maybe MapRoulette could be this backend. I don't know (what it can do, and if there is an API for that).

However, a few additional notes here:

  • matching with data already present in OSM is going to be non-trivial. (I.e. no quest should be displayed for a POI that already exists in OSM - at a maybe slightly different position. Maybe it was added very recently.)
  • if confirming that the POI really exists requires being on-site, then one could instead also map all the POIs with the "shop overlay" anyway. Sure, this quest would make it so that people do not have to have that overlay active, but still...

(Also, converting this to a discussion, because this is a question)

@streetcomplete streetcomplete locked and limited conversation to collaborators Nov 26, 2023
@westnordost westnordost converted this issue into discussion #5390 Nov 26, 2023

This issue was moved to a discussion.

You can continue the conversation there. Go to discussion →

Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

2 participants