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 OpenStreetMap is a collaborative map, and Every Door is often used at mapping parties, where people go outside and map everything they see. I have thought of how to improve this simultaneous mapping experience. Next year you will be able to share task areas from a geojson. We could also have a server for live edits and show amenities touched by somebody else (and not uploaded yet). And why even show features for confirmation outside your mapping zone? 18 comments
 @everydoor This is one of my favourite parts of ED, especially the visual indicators in the map, the roof shape previews, and the zero-typing street names! The amenity mode in Every Door replaces an interactive map with a list. But even in this form, data would take too much space — since I want to see all the important data. Shop type, opening hours, phone, payment options, accessibility... How do you print those without each card taking up half a phone screen? Emoji! There is a library of emoji for many OSM amenity types, and also symbols for each of the important attributes. To me, it's immediately readable and compact. @everydoor where can the OSM POI type to Emoji library be found? OSM is not a single thing, as its data model implies, but a mess of hundreds of layers. Some visible, some aren't. Some attract corporate interest, some cause community fights now and then. Some neglected. With Every Door, I am targeting POI in OSM: previously so hard to maintain, mappers just tended to ignore them, or focus on a narrow subset. Now I can finally trust search results in my city more than Google's or any of the open alternatives. And we're just starting!  Given that Every Door does not upload changes automatically, they can lay in its database for weeks. But don't worry of conflicts: just before uploading, it downloads fresh versions of all modified objects, and does a three-way merge for those that have changed. So no tag changes will be lost, and no special panels for conflict resolution needed. If some changes do fail to upload and get stuck, delete them from the settings → pending uploads panel.  @everydoor Yesterday I was pleasantly surprised to discover that ED has very robust networking code! While connected to the public Wifi of a mall, I started uploading changes, but the wifi dropped off in the middle of the upload. It kept spinning. As soon as I restored the connection, it performed a clean rollback and I could try again. No mess, no duplicates, no work lost! 👌 When mapping long into evening, it's easy to lose track of time. At some point my phone switches the screen to grayscale, to make going to sleep easier. I have seen Every Door this way much more than once. @everydoor for some seconds I was thinking this was somewhere in Switzerland, because I read "Nömme"... Okay this is not a map, but has a medium-sized PostGIS query underneath. Every Door operates on a one-step principle: you map and forget. But for notes, it is two steps: record, and map at home. Still, I forget nevertheless. So I made a special web page for GeoScribbles, which lists, who mapped, where, and when. Meaning, I see all my notes grouped, and can mark whether I have processed them. And indeed, I've already forgot about a walk I had a week ago. Time for JOSM! With all the geoscribble promotion here, it's easy to forget what are those big circles in the notes mode. Yup, those are OSM Notes. Need to remap the area later or leave a message to other mappers? Tap (+) and enable the "Publish to OSM" switch. @everydoor where do those notes / scribbles end up if you *don’t* publish to OSM? @Roelant They become a part of geoscribbles, which have both linear and point features. The idea is, labels like road surfaces or gate status belong to the scribbles database, and not the general OSM, which imposes the whole lifecycle management on notes etc. @everydoor ok, thanks for explaining! And to make sure I understand: there’s no such thing as a private scribble just for oneself to proces later? (Which would fill the gap of an iOS version of geonotes, which is painfully lacking 😅) @Roelant No, there are no private scribbles, although it's possible to filter by username. Next year it will most likely be possible to redirect the editor to use your own geoscribbles instance. @everydoor I originally downloaded Every Door to start adding shop hours, still lots to go, it'd be great to have more people join in @everydoor I'm glad to find Every Door with this post that was boosted. Been a user of #StreetComplete for a couple years, but I was missing a quick editor to add new stuff. Looks like Every Door will be good to add to my tools. |
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"Simple 3D Buildings" is the base OSM tagging schema, which everybody interested in looking at 3D landscapes learns about. It is indeed simple — and the most popular part of it are building heights and roof shapes.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_3D_Buildings
Every Door has a special panel for editing those attributes. Just in five taps you can make a rendered building look like a real one. Sometimes I add missing data (gray labels on the picture) on my walk from a bus stop or a remote shop.
#30DayMapChallenge
"Simple 3D Buildings" is the base OSM tagging schema, which everybody interested in looking at 3D landscapes learns about. It is indeed simple — and the most popular part of it are building heights and roof shapes.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_3D_Buildings
Every Door has a special panel for editing those attributes. Just in five taps you can make a rendered building look like a real one. Sometimes I add missing data (gray labels on the picture) on my walk from a bus stop or a remote shop.