[OSM-talk] Smartphone mapping in Africa

[john whelan]

I think I hadn't looked at Vespucci for a while but looking at it now it
looks much improved.  I like the fact you can vary the amount of map you
download.

Complexity I think is just a matter of documentation.  I ran a session with
new mappers and JOSM once with the buildings_tool.  I just taught them what
they needed to be able to add buildings.

Thanks John



On Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 12:45 Mateusz Konieczny via talk <
talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

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> Aug 18, 2021, 17:31 by jwhelan0112 at gmail.com:
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> 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
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> Android:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vespucci
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm_Go!
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> iOS:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map!!
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> 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.
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> 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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