[OSM-talk] Introducing SwiftAddress, an highly efficient way of collecting housenumbers

James james2432 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 22 20:18:34 UTC 2021


google playstore also requires devs to pay a 1 time 25$ fee, this was to
avoid garbage being dumped on playstore

On Fri., Jan. 22, 2021, 3:15 p.m. , <ipswichmapper at tutanota.com> wrote:

> Soon, yes. Currently however, I'm focusing on fixing bugs and adding basic
> features.
>
> The other thing is google play. I'll have to add there, however I don't
> have a google account and signing up asks for a phone number (which is not
> something I'd really want to provide). Another option is to send the signed
> APK to someone else who will publish using their account. If that isn't
> possible/safe, I'll create a google account
>
> Currently, I've just released it on Github for people to test it out. Once
> I feel it is high enough quality to go into app stores I'll think about
> these questions.
>
> Thanks,
> IpswichMapper
> --
>
> 22 Jan 2021, 16:24 by james2432 at gmail.com:
>
> do you plan on releasing it on F-droid?
>
> On Fri., Jan. 22, 2021, 10:49 a.m. ipswichmapper--- via talk, <
> talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
> Far, far more efficient. Streetcomplete requires you to draw buildings.
> While it recently added increment features, this app has increment features
> FOR BOTH SIDES of the road, so you can collect both sides at the same time
> (and it will remember your previous housenumber which you can easily
> increment).
>
> Furthermore, if the street folloes a increment pattern ( for example
> housenums go up by 2 each time), then you set that increment and long press
> the arrow to automatically add an address to the map. For examplr, if you
> had judt added housenumber "24" on left side of road then long pressing on
> the left arrow will qutomatically add "26".
>
> This could be really, really efficient for adding numbers on streets with
> a predictable housenumber pattern.
>
> In the future I also want to support addr:interpolation as well.
>
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>
> 22 Jan 2021, 15:22 by baloo at ursamundi.org:
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 5:35 AM ipswichmapper--- via talk <
> talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
> The way you place housenumbers is by moving the crosshair (which is in the
> middle of the screen) above the building outline of the housenumber you are
> trying to map. You then add the housenumber using the keypad.
>
>
> How does this differ from the address collection quest in StreetComplete?
> Not trying to be destructively critical here, but this sounds a tad fiddly
> compared to "touch icon, enter number" where StreetComplete detects an
> appropriate object missing address information.
>
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