OpenStreetMap
I’ve worked at home for a year and a half amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. These days I’ve gained weight because I seldom walk, so I make it a rule to take some walk in the evening around my neighborhood. It’s good for the OSM community to have its map around the area where I live more minute, but there are some problems. How do I record minute data such as the shape of buildings, and the names of shops and restaurants. I use my iPhone to get GPS tracking data while I’m taking a walk, but they don’t have enough information. I wonder how others acquire the enough data for drawing some buildings and identifying the point of interests.
Discussion
Comment from H@mlet on 30 September 2021 at 11:38
Mapillary can help. Or other street-level photos project.
Otherwise I use OsmAnd Notes, I just usually don’t upload, and process them myself.
Comment from bryceco on 1 October 2021 at 01:48
Go Map!! is a full-featured editor for iPhone/iPad:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/go-map/id592990211
Comment from InsertUser on 1 October 2021 at 12:24
I normally trace building shapes from imagery. Once the outlines are there StreetComplete is quite good for addresses, heights etc. For building outlines in JOSM I recommend the Building Tools plugin generally and the Mapathoner plugin if the buildings are all similar basic shapes.
OsmAnd has a “OpenStreetMap editing” plugin that is quite good for adding POI as nodes. Their documents say this is in the iOS version too.
If you want to add more than their basic information I find it useful to take a picture of the sign. JOSM can show geotagged images on the map which helps keep the information near the node you need to edit. I can’t remember if this requires a plugin or is available “out of the box”.
Comment from Biebie_matsu on 9 October 2021 at 13:07
Thank you for giving me some useful ways how to map stores, offices, and other buildings!