My opinion about Mapcomplete after 1,2k edits most with pictures.

After a few sporadic edits i realised that Mapcomplete offers a new dimension of mapping. I feel like the beginning of OSM. Almost at every corner its possible to upload pictures=information. No pictures need to be boring. Neither the clock on the building, nor the bench with a view or bicycle parking with oldtown in background. Additionally add some details. www.mapcomplete.org

#MapComplete #openstreetmap #map #photography

@SeeandMap A potential longer term problem is the fragmentation - StreetComplete has its own picture storage, MapComplete it's own...
Would it make sense to have that as a central function?

Of course, that would have many challenges and risks of its own.

@richlv

I thought the images in Streetcomplete were deleted when the note was edited.

@SeeandMap I've heard so too, they are rather transient. Checking the images later could be helpful longer term, and perhaps some centralised approach could help.

@richlv @SeeandMap

Images are a bit a tough one. If osm.org offered picture storage, I would - no doubt - upload them there. Currently, Imgur is used to upload the pictures, but they are backed up regularly on my machine (it's only 20GB for now, for ~25K pictures)

Wikimedia isn't really an option (see https://github.com/pietervdvn/MapComplete/issues/99)

Mapillary would be fitting, but has it's own problems (https://github.com/pietervdvn/MapComplete/issues/1451#issuecomment-1619213492)

I'm eying #GeoVisio, but haven't found the time to integrate them yet.

Uploading images to Wikimedia Commons · Issue #99 · pietervdvn/MapComplete

imgur display advertising 😞 and Wikimedia Commons is well supported by others Osmose applications. It will be useful to use it 😄

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Yeah, I'm #9 contributor to Mapillary, worldwide, and I wouldn't recommend it for this purpose :)

Core OSM doing this could be a huge improvement, but also difficult (in several ways) to implement.

@richlv @SeeandMap Wow, impressive amount of pictuers!