I first learned of Street-Complete here and I really like it.

It’s satisfying to walk around, complete little tasks, and get prizes, scratching a similar itch to Pokemon Go.

Stuck waiting for someone? Add opening hours for a few local businesses.

Have a long walk ahead of you? See if you can add/check house addresses as fast as you can walk.

Want to walk off a few beers before heading home? Complete some tasks in the bar street.

Its a very constructive way to “be right” on the internet.

  • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    I don’t like the implication that Pokémon GO was bad when it got a ton of people to go outside and interact with each other. This is cool too though.

    • InsertUser@en.osm.town
      2·
      3 months ago

      @RealFknNito @vatlark @openstreetmap

      It caused a lot of fake stuff to be added to OSM even though its update frequency was slow enough that very little of the fake stuff actually made it into Pokemon Go.

      I think it did bring in a few good mappers too though so it wasn’t all bad.

          • Nicoleism101@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            It was unique time and experience at its peak. People moved on largely and if something as big and addicting as Pokémon couldn’t permanently make it popular then nothing will

            It will come back however in different form as the miniaturisation of VR headsets progresses and whenever it will be cool and comfortable to walk in one

            Walking with eyes glued to phone gets old real quick and can fucking kill you hence no matter how good game is this formula is dead. Many Darwin awards were handed out. My friend received one and another got just a nomination

            • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              I know the E word is getting old here but I’ll say that “product degradation” occured for the reasons of increased revenue which was not for consumer benefit

  • toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nlEnglish
    6·
    4 months ago

    Yes, the gamification elements they’ve been adding lately are brilliant. I was really impressed when I first saw that. Really need to open the app more often…

  • jdf038@mander.xyzEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    Just submitted a first update. Yay dopamine.

    The open source community can thank me later. I’ll take a banquet and a linux distro named after me thanks.

    (Seriously this seems fun - thanks for posting about it)

  • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    I love this app so much, also if you really get into it go to the open street map website and draw buildings, roads, etc to add missing places or update changes.

    I cleared my whole walkable area of questions then added all the houses and it populates new questions about house number, shop name, etc which I then went and filled out while walking round. In the zone around me the open source map is now by far the best free to access map, Google house numbers are completely random and no where has upto data shops.

    There’s also a lot of cool projects devoted to mapping under-served areas, especially in regions where aid workers need information or natural disasters have changed landscapes. You draw in roads, towns, farms, etc based on areal imagery.

  • Eyedust@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    I love this app, found it a bit ago on F-Droid. I’m moving to a very rural town up north and there’s nearly nothing done there. Very excited to get up there and start working on it.

    • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      every time i find myself in a rural town, i go out for a walk with streetComplete. I’m often the first mapper of those areas and it’s a pleasure to complete the map and see your entries on the updates a couple of weeks later. next time you’re there, you have a detailed map of the area available and you know why :)

  • fr0g@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    Friendly PSA that there is also StreetComplete ExpertEdition (on F-Droid only) which has more tasks and crucially allows you to directly edit tags. Very recommended if you know what you’re doing and have some more familiarity with OSM.
    https://github.com/Helium314/SCEE

    • Eyedust@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Oh, this is interesting. I’m not the most advanced OSM user, but I’ll definitely take a look at this and learn.

  • tmpod@lemmy.ptEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    StreetComplete is godsend. Editing OSM in JOSM, iD, etc, is not trivial and involves reading a lot of documentation and forum posts (if you care to do things right), which of course isn’t anywhere near practical for small devices when you’re on the go, surveying.

    This app changed my whole routine. The interface is really solid and helps the community target important tasks, rewarding it with little prizes. Althewhile, the gamification is kept at a very healthy level, to avoid attracting leaderboard seekers and whatnot, which would certainly lower the quality of contributions.

    I think the contribution day grid (akin to GitHub’s thing) as well as the dynamic category explorer, the badges and the OSM-related projects it reveals to you bit by bit really bring everything together. It’s an incredible tool!

    For the experienced (and this is not said lightly), there is the expert version, which adds more advanced editing features for those looking for a bit more control in regular SC.

    • redd@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      While StreetComplete is very careful with the quests, my experience with SCEE was much worse. As an example, with current SCEE 58.2 the building color quest is still buggy. The brown, black and white choices are showing wrong colored illustrations.

      Therefore SCEE is not a recommendation for me.

  • stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    I tried it when someone posted about it a couple of weeks ago. It is fun, my son and I go for walks and I include him in the tasks. Unfortunately, we get a lot of road surface questions which are a bit boring.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        If a question type gets tedious you can disable that “quest” in the settings.

        That improved my experience. I disabled the things that my city generally doesn’t have, and it made my questing much more enjoyable.

      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        If I disable the 3 types of quest I get in my area (road surface, lanes, power pole type) then I get basically no quests, period

        I’ve taken to adding buildings that I’m surprised they didn’t already have on OSM and then filling in the quests that auto-populate with that, but its meh

        • tmpod@lemmy.ptEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Have you looked at all the different layers? A while back they added more of those, with different types of quests that don’t appear normally.

    • pmk@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      21·
      3 months ago

      Iirc, you can deselect road surfaces in the settings somewhere so the app doesn’t ask about it?

  • abeorch@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Can I throw in that once you get your stride with Streetcomplete you’ll love Every Door where you can add Shops and features pretty easily. They really complement each other.

      • abeorch@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Im also interested in Mangrove Reviews. Have to find more out about that.

      • abeorch@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        The thing I like about mapcomplete is the ability to add photos and reviews for Bars and restaurants. that’s really good.

        I find each application has its niche and I switch between them depending whether Im walking around or filling.in details.

    • blackris@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      0·
      3 months ago

      Thank you for the tip. Installed.

      Ta add another one: StreetMeasure. But I think that will be suggested in SC if you don’t have it installed?

        • blackris@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          I looked it up in F-Droid. It is only available in the IzzyOnDroid repo. StreetMeasure relies on ARCode and the Google Play Services for AR, so it is against F-Droids inclusion policy.

          • abeorch@lemmy.mlEnglish
            4·
            3 months ago

            i wondered something like that. Its a useful tool Obviously prefer not to be using Google Play Services but compromise makes the world go round. Better that than using Google Maps all the time.

            • Pietervdvn :mapcomplete:@en.osm.town
              5·
              3 months ago

              @abeorch @blackris StreetMeasure heavily relies on some Google Services (notably the ‘augmented reality’). As the maintainer wanted to keep SC free of the google dependency, the StreetMeasure functionality was split out into a separate app

  • en1gma@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Oh that sounds funny! Having a walk and doing something for the community.

    Unfortunately it isn’t available for iOS. 🙁

  • inbeesee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    This is the most fun app in the world. I hope they keep building on top of this, it’s amazing! Plus, being able to see new “quests” popup as you edit on OSM/edit? Amazing!!

  • jaxxed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Fdroid says that it is bound to jawg.io for tiles. What are the chances that we are giving our data to a company who will take it away from us, or is just using us for free labour?