@RichardoC

#OpenStreetMap is awesome, of course, but honestly, our main website is not the best way to showcase our data.

Personally, whenever I give out map links, I prefer to point them to #OsmAPP, either the direct POI (already mapped in OSM), or a random point I want to share.

If we're gonna give new folks their first interaction with OSM, we might as well make sure we're giving them an awesome experience, too.

@bestsoln We should move off #GoogleMaps…but not to #MapMyIndia.

The best map is made by the community and owned by the community - like #OpenStreetMap. The best software is transparent, monopoly-free, and respects the users’ software freedom - i.e. #FreedomRespecting / #libre / #opensource software, such as #CoMaps, #OsmAnd, #OsmAPP, #MapComplete, etc.

Instead of investing in yet another privately-owned platform, we should invest in the aforementioned.

MapMyIndia could have joined the hundreds of other companies who have built their maps atop #OSM data, allowing them to benefit from the collective investment and helping improve OSM for the rest of the world.

One of the participants said that having multiple apps is too complicated for the average person.

At that point, I…

• had covered #CoMaps (with exercises to practice bookmarking things, editing bookmarks, browsing bookmarks, using the navigation, enabling the Metro layer, and using the search),
• had gotten started with #iD,
• and had mentioned #MapComplete to the complainant in response to a query of theirs.

In the heat of the moment I said that having one app that can do it all would become a pretty complicated one (just look at OsmAnd)…but is that really true if the UI is well-designed…?

#OsmAPP (osmapp.org) aims to be one such “universal app for OpenStreetMap”. I hope it can achieve its goals while still remaining tech-illiterate-friendly…

#contraMaps #OpenStreetMap #OSM #Delhi #India

@mgorny Editing OSM on mobile, with ID, is a PITA.

I have multiple apps on my phone, but the most often for these are: @everydoor , and #SCEE ¹ (the #StreetComplete fork for experienced OSM users), and occasionally , Osm Go! ², depending on the element I'm trying to edit.

For casual, or non-OSM users, I usually recommend #OsmAPP in-browser (where they can suggest changes, rather than make the edits themselves)

¹ SCEE - https://github.com/Helium314/SCEE
² Osm Go! - https://osmgo.com