- I know this is a bad way to express it but do wish that #streetcomplete and @MapComplete #mapcomplete would get together with @panoramax and gitlab.com/ravenfeld/baba to have a baby.
Streetcomplete is so good when you are wandering past somewhere and think “That shop or thing should be on Openstreetmap” - so you pull together some details into streetcomplete - but then you think “A few photos of this place would be really handy” so you open Baba and take some photos of the exterior or street around it but while they are geolocated next to the location they aren’t linked to the shop/feature or whatever.
I’m tempted to jump into Mapcomplete because yes if its an existing place I can fill in some more details (once I go through and find the location in the relevant filters ) but if I’ve just added it it won’t be in mapcomplete even though I would love to add those photos - answer a few questions about the place and even pop in a review.
What I’ve realised that is random geolocated street photos are a mine of geocodble info.
Don’t get me wrong - all of these apps are amazing! - I’m so thankful to all the amazing work that people have done on them … I recommend them to friends but I just wish I was skilled enough to help bring them together and make something even more beautiful …
Hey,
MapComplete developer here. If you have just added a place, it should be visible in MapComplete right away. If you are logged in, data is pulled in via the OSM-api as well, precisely to avoid those conflicts (and thus possible duplicate entries). And, of course, MapComplete supports adding new points as well, as long as they match the theme.
You can also use the “see nearby images” functionality to link Panoramax (but also Mapillary and Wikimedia) images to the selected feature (although, if you’ve just uploaded the pictures, it might take a few minutes before they are visible there)
I’m not planning on adding generic ‘add images to Panoramax’-functionality, as that would dilute the user interface too much.
