Today I found out that it's actually a lot easier to contribute to Open Street Map than I thought. There are some serious gaps in house addresses in my area and I was painstakingly using the built in browser editor in the browser.

But, you can use a FOSS app (available on fdroid) called StreetComplete that makes it a lot easier to help out filling in the gaps in your local map data.

It's really fun - kind of like Pokémon Go but you are actually making an impact 😁

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[–] sixfold@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

time for some kind of anonymizing location data sharing service, peer to peer or federated protocol? that might be interesting, or sketchy, not sure which.

[–] cumberboi@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There is OpenTraffic but it seems unfinished and not implemented anywhere as far as i can tell. Edit: just to clarify, ive only heard from others that it's unfinished, havent checked myself :)

[–] sixfold@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a super interesting project. For anyone else, the project overview has some great system level diagrams:

https://github.com/opentraffic/otv2-platform

[–] CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

It looks really interesting - but unfortunately it seems it's abandoned? Last time it was updated was 7 years ago...