Today I found out that it’s actually a lot easier to contribute to Open Street Map than I thought. There are some serious gaps in house addresses in my area and I was painstakingly using the built in browser editor in the browser.

But, you can use a FOSS app (available on fdroid) called StreetComplete that makes it a lot easier to help out filling in the gaps in your local map data.

It’s really fun - kind of like Pokémon Go but you are actually making an impact 😁

  • Zacryon@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I don’t really know or use Open Street Map, so I wonder:

    Can everyone just manipulate the map data? Is there some sort of control mechanism or is it easy to incorporate fake data?

    I’m asking because this seems to be a really fallible concept, where people with malicious intents would have an easy way to disturb Open Street Map.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, but similar to Wikipedia (where the same holds true) the forces fo good and honest seem to prevail.