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You can and you should contribute - Open Street Map (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I don't really know or use Open Street Map, so I wonder:

Can everyone just manipulate the map data? Is there some sort of control mechanism or is it easy to incorporate fake data?

I'm asking because this seems to be a really fallible concept, where people with malicious intents would have an easy way to disturb Open Street Map.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yes, but similar to Wikipedia (where the same holds true) the forces fo good and honest seem to prevail.

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