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Every Door OSM Editor

"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.

wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Si

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

Every Door screenshot in buildings mode. There are dozens of rectangular labels on the map with numbers (which are house numbers). Some are white, some — along Valdeku street — are yellow. At the bottom, a buliding editing panel is open. It presents a choice for each attribute. Selected are: house 76, street Valdeku, levels 2, roof levels 1, roof shape is a picture, facede wood, type apartments.
21 November at 13:39 | Open on en.osm.town
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Paguro :osm:

@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!

21 November at 16:23 | Open on mapstodon.space
Every Door OSM Editor

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.

#30DayMapChallenge

Screenshot of Every Door, amenities mode. At the top the current position is inside a mall. At the bottom there are many items on the list: ATM SEB, fast food SushiShop, Itella Smartpost parcel automaat, OÜ Rafimi flower shop, Berry Stop greengrocer, Selver supermarket, Tondi Apteek etc. Each card has mutliple emoji: one for the amenity type, and also many denoting accessibility, payment types, presence of a phone number, website, opening hours etc.
22 November at 14:33 | Open on en.osm.town
s3lf replied to Every Door OSM Editor

@everydoor where can the OSM POI type to Emoji library be found?

22 November at 19:41 | Open on fosstodon.org
Every Door OSM Editor replied to Every Door OSM Editor

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!

#30DayMapChallenge

Overpass Turbo result for Tallinn for shops and amenities with a check_date tag. It says it found 3201 points and 571 polygons.
25 November at 7:51 | Open on en.osm.town
Every Door OSM Editor replied to Every Door OSM Editor

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.

#30DayMapChallenge

Every Door screenshot: list of 7 changes to upload (in the Settings). Four changes visible, of which one is shifted to left left slightly, opening a white-on-red trashcan button. At the top there are buttons to share and upload.
25 November at 10:08 | Open on en.osm.town
Paguro :osm: replied to Every Door OSM Editor

@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! 👌

25 November at 13:05 | Open on mapstodon.space
Every Door OSM Editor replied to Every Door OSM Editor

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.

#30DayMapChallenge

Regular Every Door screenshot in amenities mode, near Nõmme center (Tallinn). Some poi are confirmed. What's not usual is that the screen is in grayscale.
26 November at 8:25 | Open on en.osm.town
vautee replied to Every Door OSM Editor

@everydoor for some seconds I was thinking this was somewhere in Switzerland, because I read "Nömme"...

26 November at 8:32 | Open on chaos.social
Every Door OSM Editor replied to Every Door OSM Editor

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!

#30DayMapChallenge

List of "GeoScribble edits". On top there are buttons: "You are Zverik. Show All. Logout." Then, a list of places and dates. The top one is from 19 November in Nõmme, Tallinn. Each line has four buttons: map, josm, rapid, and "Mark done" or "Not done yet".
26 November at 12:42 | Open on en.osm.town
Every Door OSM Editor replied to Every Door OSM Editor

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.

#30DayMapChallenge

Screenshot of Every Door in the notes mode, with a satellite imagery on the background. There are five circles visible on the map: one yellow and four white.
26 November at 14:13 | Open on en.osm.town
Roelant replied to Every Door OSM Editor

@everydoor where do those notes / scribbles end up if you *don’t* publish to OSM?

26 November at 18:35 | Open on mastodon.social
Every Door OSM Editor replied to Roelant

@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.

26 November at 19:28 | Open on en.osm.town
Roelant replied to Every Door OSM Editor

@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 😅)

26 November at 22:03 | Open on mastodon.social
Every Door OSM Editor replied to Roelant

@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.

yesterday at 6:53 | Open on en.osm.town
DemonHusky replied to Every Door OSM Editor

@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

25 November at 21:21 | Open on better.boston
Julien Deswaef replied to Every Door OSM Editor

@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.

25 November at 22:30 | Open on m.xuv.be
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