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what are you looking for in the upcoming year(s) for osm? (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by juli@programming.dev to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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My biggest wish is that there's an easy way to contribute images to wikimedia and to link them easily with osm. As soon as that's possible, we'll map the world much quicker and more reliable. Someone might take pictures of benches and another one will add the info if there's a backrest from home.

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[–] juli@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I guess the main problem is that it's not accessible to the broad osm-public. I can map my area perfectly but I can't go to other places. It needs to be accessible and easy to use.

[–] pietervdvn@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean with "it's not accessible to the broad public"? The pictures get linked properly with an 'image'-tag, so it shows up in e.g. OsmAnd.

[–] juli@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but the upload process is not accessible. It has to be accessible, otherwise everything I do is just a drop into the ocean

[–] pietervdvn@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

With mapcomplete, it is literally clicking 'upload image', taking a picture and waiting for it to be uploaded?