I'm addicted to Streetcomplete. I'm 20.000+ edits in. I make about 100 with ease on my commute to work.

Just did around 150 contributions, looks fun so I might complete more quests tomorrow

Is there an open street map based map app that shows live traffic? I'm trying to get my grandfather to switch to open source, and he says it's the one feature he needs.

I didn´t realize editing OSM is so easy. I just logged in, did a short tutorial and fixed one intersection where a week ago the app told to do an illegal turn. Awesome!

kind of like Pokémon Go but you are actually making an impact

I caught the whole first generation + my favorite Celebi. How's that for an impact?

I use Organic maps, and it's easy to add and edit places with.

There is a "road" near my house in OSM that does not exist and OSM is always trying to route me though it, which is very annoying. Is there any way to mark them for removal? StreetComplete doesn't seem to have that capability.

This is my pastime whenever I don't have anything to do online. It's fun to point something on OSM and remembering the establishments you've walkthrough.

Maps.me and organicsmaps apps are great too to edit osm. You can also replace google maps and its navigator which is great because if you don't find something on maps.me, you can immediately add it.

I'm contributing at my level. But, when I see all the errors, issues and missing object around me, it's a full time job for at least one months.

Oh heck yea! My neighborhood is better mapped on OSM than Google Maps even now! Very fulfilling to see.

I don't really know or use Open Street Map, so I wonder:

Can everyone just manipulate the map data? Is there some sort of control mechanism or is it easy to incorporate fake data?

I'm asking because this seems to be a really fallible concept, where people with malicious intents would have an easy way to disturb Open Street Map.

Personally I think a great combo is mapping stuff out with the phone where you can survey the place and have GPS, and then sending those changes to a computer to polish in JOSM if needed (e.g. when you're building new ways and want to make their geometry nicer) which is a lot more powerful editor and more comfortable than doing it on a touchscreen.

But whichever editor you prefer, I concur that mapping is very fun and also useful. :)

(And a lot more straight forward than trying to make a change in Apple or especially Google Maps...)

Do you need an account?

This is a blast, thanks for the recommendation

StreetComplete is awesome and so easy to use.

Vote and comment for an iOS app https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/discussions/5230

And rember Pokemon Go uses osm for their data so you are making an impact on them too.

Hmm. I dislike that it uploads every thing as a separate change. I much more prefer editing the whole area and saving it as one neat package, rather than posting hundreds of "this is road is made of asphalt" posts.

So it's not for me, but if that helps to make OSM better, I'm all for it!

Maybe I could make a separate account without neat history and from time to time click some icons in the app though. That probably wouldn't bother me as much.

I just started using it but I made a mistake on one of my submissions. Is there any way to undo or edit a submission made in the app?

Edit: There is an undo button on the bottom left in the app.

If you'd like to be able to search for house addresses in osmand+ you can download these map packs.. A total life saver..

https://github.com/pnoll1/osmand_map_creation

Yep - been using it for a week or two myself. Nearly 400 points so far!