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<div>Note: following can be of interest if someone is interested in some features in SC.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Obviously not everyone is obligated to use or like or even try all editors :)<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="auto">tl;dr part that is likely the most useful:<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For any quest you can create OSM note with a photo via "can't say" option<br></div><div dir="auto">if it is not answerable in app (please attach photos with context, that<br></div><div dir="auto">often allows to fix note remotely with armchair editin).<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You can also long press on any map location to create note (note also can have photo attached).<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>Jul 26, 2021, 00:21 by ndrw6@redhazel.co.uk:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><blockquote>I admit that I am quite curious what went wrong!<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I tried it once and there were quite a few rather obvious issues I've noticed:<br></div><div>- I wanted to add a house number but the tool wouldn't display the quest because the building was only tagged as building=yes or was out of range.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">For building=yes it would ask first about building type (because otherwise it would<br></div><div dir="auto">prompt user for addresses of sheds and garages).<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>- The building was not yet split into parts and needed two or more address points.<br></div><div>- The building was not yet mapped but I wanted to add an address point anyway.<br></div><div>- The building was already tagged with a wrong address that I wanted to correct.<br></div><div>- There was no way of adding comments (private or public) for more complex cases.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">For any quest you can create note with a photo via "can't say" option.<br></div><div dir="auto">You can also long press on any map location to create note (note also can have photo attached).<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>I took a printed out map with me as a back up and it only took 5 minutes before I have fully reverted to it. In that session StreetComplete wouldn't have let me add three quarters of the addresses, wasting my time and effort.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Yeah, StreetComplete address quest is useful primarily for <br></div><div dir="auto">- cases where just few addresses are missing<br></div><div dir="auto">- for people unable or unwilling to learn about OSM tagging<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For places with most addresses missing / without mapped buildings / building<br></div><div dir="auto">geometries not matching addressable entities an experienced mapper may be<br></div><div dir="auto">faster with a paper notes.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>I doubt no one has ever noticed these issues. More likely they were swept under the carpet as not compatible with the game-like vision for the tool.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">It is rather case of "this is a complex feature that will not implement itself,<br></div><div dir="auto">especially if it would be implemented well".<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Oh, and I would have felt embarrassed creating so many trivial changesets. Not technically an issue but I'd gave avoided using the tool even if it worked for me.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Edits for the given quest are grouped. See <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/108537422">https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/108537422</a> <br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><blockquote>Should "despite a very nice user interface" be understood as "interface was pretty but not suitable for efficient surveying"?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, the interface was genuinely good. In a tool like an OSM editor I mainly care about performance and ergonomics and they were both much better than anything else I tried on a mobile phone. I don't care about aesthetics but I understand it is important for good first impression.<br></div><blockquote><div>If you used it before addr:street was asked or when addr:street quest appeared weeks after<br></div><div>add:housenumber was solved - then this issues are nowadays fixed :)<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That was indeed one of the issues I've noticed. I am glad it has been resolved.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">:)<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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