You are a fuckinf HERO! I moved to a rural place and there’s a lot that could be done better on the maps. I’ve been thinking seriously about starting to do the same.
It gets really addicting, and it’s definitely easy to get carried away micromapping areas you know well. I try to keep in mind that lots of micromapping doesn’t really help the average user (aside from sidewalks and kerb cuts, lots of stuff I mapped like light poles just don’t show up in most maps anyway), and probably the best way to get the biggest impact with the least amount of work is by plotting the locations of shops and adding details like websites and opening hours since most people use maps for navigating to POIs. Even if you can’t add any details, just plotting a pin with the shop name and type still helps a lot as people using streetcomplete will be asked about further details when they are in the area where they can pop into the shop and check those things. It’s a really cool way to have a symbiotic community of people plotting stuff from home using satellite imagery and people on the ground surveying and filling in more details.
Ynk, someday a midnight murder might be solved (or even prevented!) by your mapping of the streetlights, or a wheelchair user might realize the base of the light pole is going to block too much of the sidewalk and cross to the other side at the previous corner.
You are a fuckinf HERO! I moved to a rural place and there’s a lot that could be done better on the maps. I’ve been thinking seriously about starting to do the same.
It gets really addicting, and it’s definitely easy to get carried away micromapping areas you know well. I try to keep in mind that lots of micromapping doesn’t really help the average user (aside from sidewalks and kerb cuts, lots of stuff I mapped like light poles just don’t show up in most maps anyway), and probably the best way to get the biggest impact with the least amount of work is by plotting the locations of shops and adding details like websites and opening hours since most people use maps for navigating to POIs. Even if you can’t add any details, just plotting a pin with the shop name and type still helps a lot as people using streetcomplete will be asked about further details when they are in the area where they can pop into the shop and check those things. It’s a really cool way to have a symbiotic community of people plotting stuff from home using satellite imagery and people on the ground surveying and filling in more details.
Ynk, someday a midnight murder might be solved (or even prevented!) by your mapping of the streetlights, or a wheelchair user might realize the base of the light pole is going to block too much of the sidewalk and cross to the other side at the previous corner.