Enable "Note to self"

[rhhsm]

I often find during surveying that I'd like to make a note on the map just for myself, as a reminder of what I see and what the problem is so that I can make an edit on OSM when I get home. Of course it's already possible to make a note, but it will get uploaded to OSM, which is too "heavy" for my purpose most of the time (it will be for everybody to see, can be resolved and then reactivated, etc.). Would it be possible to make it optional to upload the note to OSM, or just keep it private in the app (on the phone of the user only)?

[westnordost]

If you are last one to comment, the note will be shown to you

Am 18. August 2021 21:26:58 MESZ schrieb "Jonathan Neuschäfer" @.***>:

It would already help if a user could see his own notes in Streetcomplete...

Can you explain the use case for that?

Here is one use case:

• I open a note
• Discussion ensues and we (the OSM community) decide that more information should be gathered
• I want to revisit the note in order to add a comment with the missing information

Of course, showing the user's own notes could be optional and off by default, as with notes that are not phrased as questions.

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[mnalis]

If you are last one to comment, the note will be shown to you

should have probably been:

If you are last one to comment, the note will not be shown to you

@neuschaefer And if you want to force so that it is shown to you even when you were last to comment, you can add text #surveyme to the note comment https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/3002#issuecomment-870468356. (of course only do that if the processing of that note requires someone to perform some on-the-ground survey first!)

(Or, as a hack, in StreetComplete go to menu / My Profile / Logout and then menu / Scan for quests here. If the SC does not know who you are, it cannot hide your comments. You can Login later again with no loss)

[Lee-Carre]

Addressing the OP concept: I would suggest using a separate app. To me, such a feature seems like bloating of SC.

Adding data to SC, which isn't uploaded to OSM, only to be deleted later. That seems outside of SC's scope / purpose. Other apps already implement this behaviour / feature (e.g. marking favourite locations (‘geobookmarks’)).

Else, use a more generic editor and add a note:* or fixme to the element in question.

I also find that simply taking photos (stored on the device, not attached to an OSM note) works well as reminders. Geolocated by the ExIF metadata, and showing the real-world object that requires non-trivial mapping.

[ChildishGiant]

I currently usually run OSMTracker just for leaving little notes that I know I can fix myself but not through streetcomplete. Personally all I'd want from this feature is a button to add a note to self at a location and then a menu to go through existing ones.

[fincentxyz]

Any update on the 'Note to self' / 'Personal notes' feature request? I would love to see this feature added to StreetComplete. Thanks in advance!

[ravenfeld]

I needed to make personal notes because I could not add knots directly. So I often http://vespucci.io/ open at the same time. I think what people don't understand is that SC is not an editor. I think it's a pity that it doesn't do that because the interface is really nice.

[mnalis]

I think what people don't understand is that SC is not an editor

Hm, SC is definitely an editor - it edits OSM data directly. It is just not a general purpose editor, but a very specific one which only does some things (but does them easily and quickly, simpler and faster then general purpose editors like Vespucci)

I think it's a pity that it doesn't do that because the interface is really nice.

For those interested in not publicly uploading their Notes/photos, this feature for local (private) Notes with pictures have been implemented in SCEE fork of StreetComplete.

[ppete2]

The last weeks I noticed a few new OSM-mappers which are using StreetComplete and opened DOZENS of public notes each day. And to be clear: This aren't notes as they should be used: to report an error in the data and ask OTHER mappers for help or their opinion. No - they have been just used as private reminders, to fix some SC-question at home. This is not what OSM-Notes are for: "Dont' use them just as private reminders": https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Notes

This behaviour of StreetComplete is really dissappointing, cause the map is cluttered by such private notes, and complicates locating the "real" notes adressing other mappers.

I already wrote to such newbies, and in general they answer: They didn't know about this fact and would be happy if a "reminder" function within SC would exist.

Please introduce this feature "private notes", to make SC users being able to create such reminder-notes which are just stored on their local phone.

[mnalis]

(ref.: @ppete2 complaint is also crossposted at https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/discussions/2559#discussioncomment-7188332, where there is more discussion, so answers show preferably go there - ideally there is only one place when one subject is being discussed)