[OSM-talk] Open sourcing of POI pictures for OSM App/STAPPZ - Feedback and ideas wanted

Sun May 13 11:42:34 UTC 2018

Hello Tim,

thank you for the broad explanation of your product!

I like the concept and me have some particular use cases for which we now
use Flickr. I would love to have an alternative to that which could be
maintained by a community that is closely related to OpenStreetMap. My
usecases are particular for non-google-dominated areas; where users not
only enter travel pictures; but also pictures related to particular causes;
for instance waste, standing water, hazards and more. They are users which
are not so tech-savvy but have an urgent need to tell "a story" to
government, officials, police or other matters of public interest.

So a POI database with the possibility to enter pictures and information
that relate to the Sustainable Development Goals would be awesome. I would
love to collaborate on such a project.

Kind regards

Milo

2018-05-11 17:19 GMT+02:00 Tim Frey <tim.frey at iunera.com>:

> Greetings OSM community,
>
>
>
> my name is Tim and I’m one of the creators of the STAPPZ app. We want
> feedback from the community about our open sourcing plan of the STAPPZ app
> content.
>
>
>
> What is STAPPZ:
>
> STAPPZ is in short an app and a server backend application. The original
> idea was to create crowdsourced version of an insider travel guide, where
> each user can contribute content.
>
> That means, you open the app and you post some pictures and a text at a
> geolocation and when you are online, then the content is uploaded to the
> server and is available on a webmap. This way, you can create a personal
> travel diary map. Our original plan was to extend STAPPZ step by step to
> create not only travel guides, but to also add pictures of POIs
>
> Example: https://maps.stappz.com/region/sicilia
>
> Android App demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDBh-VrU2Ig
>
> Explanation slides: https://de.slideshare.net/TimFrey2/travel-guides-are-
> old-news-being-a-local-insider-everywhere-is-today
>
> Background:
>
> We managed to get featured with the app at conferences and in a lot of
> magazines (e.g. Computer Bild, Chip) and got over 10k downloads for
> Android, but, frankly speaking, we did not get mass adaption to create a
> sustainable ecosystem. Therefore, we as company had to focus on other
> projects to earn money for living ☹ .
>
>
>
> Feedback wanted:
>
> We poured a lot of our personal tears and sweat in coding and marketing
> STAPPZ and today we think that STAPPZ could be used to create picture POI
> content for OSM. We see that need in special, because google maps is
> offering more and more picture POI content from users, and I, personally,
> do not know such an open datapod for open streetmap.
>
> Out of this, we consider, heavily, to “open source” the licensing of the
> user created STAPPZ content for the OSM community. In addition, we also
> consider to open source the backend of STAPPZ and the IOS and Android app
> to make a community project out of it. However, we are a very small company
> and we cannot do that completely alone, we will need help and advice from
> the community.
>
>
>
> Technical details:
>
> Internally, in the app and the backend, we use only OSM data and maps to
> ensure not being bound to legal contracts to google. The Android version is
> far more developed than the IOS version and has complete offline and
> caching functionality to allow posting of pictures form the gallery and to
> position the pictures on a map. Currently, the maps part of the app does
> not work for Android, but we want to enable it as soon as we have time.
>
> STAPPZ supports gallery uploads with exif data, cached content and many
> more things – if you got questions please ask.
>
>
>
> Questions to the community:
>
> What do you think about open sourcing the content, the app and so on? Do
> you see a value added for the OSM community?
> Would you support the project to open source it?
>
> Do you know companies who would be interested in participating? We are
> open for collaborations here.
>
> Do you have own thoughts and points about it?
>
>
>
> I’d really like to learn more here. STAPPZ is a really personal baby for
> us, and we’d like that it continues to live.
>
>
>
> Thanks a lot for everyone in advance who reads that – and even more thanks
> to the ones who are going to reply with feedback and thoughts.
>
> Even if you just think the idea is good or bad – please tell us that we
> get a picture how the whole community sees it.
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards
>
> Tim Frey
>
>
>
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