Who did have the same association at once? One will get some ideas. Now eyes closed and then write down your ideas please. Gamification of OSM, als a helper to promote OSM as a useful every day tool. But not only this, the data base should also participate.

“If you have visions, see the doctor” Helmut Schmitt, German Chancellor. - A “OSM GO” is not a mini app, just plugged together in a minute. A server has to run, the handling should be DAU prove and appealing, the function understandable. That needs more than two enthusiastic coders until at last some basic level will run.

Wether the idea is nicked, anyone may note. Pokemon Go also is a mix of known elements: Collecting coins outdoor is done long way back. Augment reality too (I am irritated because Pokemon Go doesn’t use ist all the time)

The OSM-GO client may (at first) be a browser-app. 3D visualisation done with WebGL/Tree.js, Javascript On-Events to catch the moves and direction of the smartphone. As we don’t have an Javascript OSM render engine, this is, by the way, also a chalange.

There is still the question about the game play. Just do start, we also may do OSM-useless point collecting: Any healthy walked step counts, find and goto hydrants and water dispenser. If the player likes, he may set himself and its walks visible, virtual to all other players.

Really fun comes up with OSM-useful things: Check wether a shop, contained in OSM, still exists; the older the last verification the more points you get. Verify, update or insert tags of the shop. Note new house numbers. Is a way really a dead end or did the first mapper run out of time/enthusiasm? Enter new POI or even totally new ways.

At that moment OSM, data get changed, it gets critical and needs verifying. A lot helps a lot: If three player claim the same, it will be rather correct, and only now, it will be taken over to the OSM data. To collect more gameplay ideas and features there then may be a page in the OSM wiki.

Is all this a vision only or feasible? I don’t see any technically obstacles. If it runs fine, OSM will provide server capacity. The biggest OSM shortage is human contributors, organiser and coder. I would be part of it (references: ac1000.de/tosme ac1000.de/kk/kk )

And finally: Is there common interest to play this kind of “game”, anyway?

(This is my own limited translation of the German original text)