My biggest wish is that there’s an easy way to contribute images to wikimedia and to link them easily with osm. As soon as that’s possible, we’ll map the world much quicker and more reliable. Someone might take pictures of benches and another one will add the info if there’s a backrest from home.
I would like to see a revitalization of Open Place Reviews or something similar. When I found out about it it was already basically dead. We can already give very detailed tags on the type of restaurant and upload photos of it too but can’t leave reviews to my knowledge.
It does exist another working open source alternative, Mangrove Reviews https://mangrove.reviews/ I think it would be good at least to focus on developing and maintaining one.
Great! Thanks!
Where/how do you upload photos?
Maybe some sort of decentralized, distributed file hosting with relatively high compression requirements? I could contribute a few Gigs and I’m sure that’d be a whole whack of photos.
I’m working on getting a home server up and running. At that point I’d have to learn how to have some of it open to the internet while having the rest protected. I like your idea but I’m very hesitant as I don’t really know how to properly setup a server
With Mapillary
Someone might take pictures of benches and another one will add the info if there’s a backrest from home.
What about https://mapcomplete.org/benches ? Granted, it does not upload to Wikimedia commons - but then again, Wikimedia commons isn’t the right place for thousands of (mediocre) pictures of mor or less identical benches. A picture there should be “qualitative” and either “educational” or “relevant”.
I guess the main problem is that it’s not accessible to the broad osm-public. I can map my area perfectly but I can’t go to other places. It needs to be accessible and easy to use.
What do you mean with “it’s not accessible to the broad public”? The pictures get linked properly with an ‘image’-tag, so it shows up in e.g. OsmAnd.
Yes, but the upload process is not accessible. It has to be accessible, otherwise everything I do is just a drop into the ocean
With mapcomplete, it is literally clicking ‘upload image’, taking a picture and waiting for it to be uploaded?
As a developer that has used OSM, I want to fix the place classification for nodes in my country. At some point I realized that many region capitals were classified as towns when OSM policy states that they should be cities. It’s been on my backlog for the past few months, and I want to dive deeper, understand the classification policy and create a script to fix mistakes.
I am looking forward for OvertureMaps and what will happen to OSM with that.
