BoF on Mobile Focused Editors

Ideas

  • Experience with mobile editors
    • What did you edit last? With which (mobile) editor?

Maps.me: data issues
Vespucci: very advanced and complicated
StreetComplete
Mobile editing by taking photo's
OsmAnd to take notes
Taking pics locally and then upload

  • StreetComplete
    • What would you improve?
    • What you wish you could edit?
    • When UI was an obstacle?
  • Other editors
    • Most useful?
    • Vespucci / Go Map
  • What could help us?
    • Our use cases: what do you like to map? Railways, postboxes, addresses.
    • Can this be done with one button?
  • WYSIWYG editor?
    • really casual mapping, target group: normal people, not people with OSM as hobby
    • What maps.me did wrong?
    • Data gathering directly in OSM (e.g. AEDs in Bruges, Waldbrand-app.de)

Notes

  • Editors are slow to start, hence we don't wait to map. Two seconds max.
  • We can promote one app, not hundred. And maybe put all editors into a single app.
  • Photomapping is an untapped source of geo data, but using photos is still hard.
    • MapRoulette could help with postponing processing of your own photos.
    • OLMap implements this process but there is no integrated editor
  • StreetComplete born from foot-surveying inefficiency.
    • Most of what you collect with walking papers is already on the map.
  • Achievements:
    • In StreetComplete they unlock links (?)
    • In MapComplete, when you have many edits, you have more control over changesets.
    • Is it ethical? Also, there's so much you can map.
    • these are cheap: not very creative, easy to do, do not do much.
  • Map editor looking like SimCity!
    • This is mapping for renderer lol.
    • Most of these, including lanes and surface, can actually be displayed in a game-like editor.
    • OSM2World is close.
  • Vector tiles on osm.org could showcase different aspects of data, and also your edits could be visible.
    • Paul: this is not practical.
    • JOSM could be that vector tile renderer, with mapcss filtering
  • Customization?
    • iD can be customized wrt presets
    • Barebones editor that can be made into 100 thematic editor with community presets?
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