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We’ve all already talked about switching away from google/apple maps to something like openstreetmaps, mapy, tomtom amigo, etc. But all of these services use openstreetmaps (UK non-profit) as a source and they still miss a lot of local data even for bigger cities!
If you have some spare time, think about adding a bit of data to the map with your local knowledge. There’s a lot of business data missing that is on google maps like websites, phone numbers and opening hours but also stuff like parking lots and whether they’re publicly accessible and free or not. Adding these makes the competition of ALL services using OSM as a source better.
I also use the mobile app https://streetcomplete.app/ and https://every-door.app/ to add data while on my walks, these make my walks more engaging and I actually take longer ones + see new places because of it. Streetcomplete also has a focus on important and easy to collect data with their default filters, and you can choose what you want to contribute.
If you really want to get into the thick of it and contribute more than just simple data you can always check out https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_to_contribute and see in which of the many ways you can contribute!
I’m a committed contributor in the OSM Notes area. As I see a lot of people here recommending StreetComplete, which is an awesome tool, let me tell you there are some weird notes coming from this app users trying to add notes to OSM which are not useful. For example, notes like “they don’t show their opening hours” when asked about opening hours of some POI. As you can see, these answers as notes do not add information to the POI at all. On the other hand, the app is mighty useful for beginners wanting to contribute.
Guessing this is probably someone less tech savvy who were asked this and they felt they had to answer even if they can’t give anything meaningful. I see this on reviews a lot where the website will ask buyers about a product and get a lot of I don’t knows.
No, this is actually somewhat useful. At least you should add
opening_hours:signed=nofor cases like this. If the hours are not specified at all (as they are for some places), useopening_hours=unknown.The reason this is useful is so to specify that someone tried to figure out the opening hours, but there aren’t any, so at least for a while there’s no reason to check again.
Why not implementing this as a tag instead? Why the extra step of creating a note if the tag exists? I’ve been in OSM for way more than a decade and these tags are news for me, probably the developers of the app themselves don’t know them.
Right, there lies the problem. Within StreetComplete you cannot set the POI-stats like that. You only answer questions or enter numbers (stairs, specific hours). So, the App should set this, if you select the drop-down answer “There are no opening hours.” - Does anyone has connections to the developers to claim this “bug”?
It’s a FOSS project, hosted on GitHub. You can even make a PR yourself, the codebase is very readable, the devs are really nice and responsive. I made a contribution with 0 previous Kotlin experience. And if you don’t want to do that, just open an issue.
Well, that sounds like an app issue. Because this is one of the standard answers when you don’t find opening hours. Sure, it’s no “new” information, but at least you now know from the note that somebody has tried checking this, without success. - Is there a better way, in your opinion?
The other partner that answered my comment replied, accurately, what could be done instead. They propose that the notes solver uses a specific tagging. I think this could be implemented in the app, instead of the note option.