[OSM-talk] Smartphone mapping in Africa

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Aug 18, 2021, 17:31 by jwhelan0112 at gmail.com:

> We can do a fair bit of remote mapping but at the end of the day it works better with local input.
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> There are some smartphones in Africa but often internet access is expensive and poor.
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> What is available?
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> Osmand is not too bad but I note it's power demands are growing on the OSMand mailing list.
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See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editors

Android:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vespucci
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm_Go!

iOS:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map!!

> I think we need some way to make small areas of Africa available in a compressed format that can be unpacked on a smartphone with limited storage.  We need software that is lightweight or can be side loaded to avoid overloading an internet connection and the software needs some basic functionality such as being able to add or edit tags on nodes or ways.  It needs to be able to work offline and we need to get those changes home.
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> I don't think the ability to draw in highways is essential but being able to paste a preset building outline might be nice.
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> If possible it needs to display the local region and by local I mean say twenty kilometre square.
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> Local language support would be nice.
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> Thoughts on what is available or what could be built?
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Vespucci fulfills your requirements from what I see.
Not sure about OSM Go!

StreetComplete has offline capability but not via file unpacked on a smartphone.

Both Vespucci and StreetComplete have limitations - in short with Vespuuci
people complain about too complex interface, with StreetComplete it
is extremely limiting (detail can be added to existing objects, no mapping
of new objects).
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