cyclestreets / android

The Android app brings CycleStreets routing and turn-by-turn live navigation to your phone.
https://www.cyclestreets.net/mobile/android/
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[BikeHelp] Allow users to submit updates about bike shop information #98

Open oliverlockwood opened 9 years ago

oliverlockwood commented 9 years ago

Follows on from #97. Where OpenStreetMap’s information is incomplete or out of date, users could submit corrections through the app,

Dev work would be:

Personally, I’d be in favour of allowing submissions to go straight to OpenStreetMap without moderation, but I am of course open to discussion!

mvl22 commented 9 years ago

It would be acceptable for submissions to OSM directly as long as individual users have an account - submitting edits from lots of users under one username would not be acceptable.

Moderation isn't really ideal, as that increases time, and to be honest there's not a huge amount of point, as we don't know the area someone is cycling in.

Main thing is that if the UI is good, and a clear account creation screen can be added, then there's no reason not to submit to the API directly.

This would be a really valuable improvement. Although there are dedicated apps for updating OSM data, something more lightweight like this which enables simple updating and enhancing of POI data directly by users of that data, i.e. in this app, would be great.

dekarl commented 8 years ago

A variant would be to add a generic interface for the Map Notes API using local mappers for moderation / translation (from natural language into OSM tags). Could be in combination with uploading a photo to illustrate the needed corrections.

Something that appears simple (but is not), like updating the opening hours, could be achieved by taking a picture of the sign with the new opening hours and adding some descriptive words. The summary of the syntax for common use cases is multiple pages of text referring to multiple tools.

Looking at some notes on OSM I like the variant with a picture. E.g. "this way is missing, it looks like this, please tag it correctly".