I just started “playing” Street Complete and noticed there was no way to add stuff like new bemches amd trash cans to the map. I found the “create note” feature and started using that for this purpose.

Before I continue like thisI just wamted to check with you guys and see; Am I doing this right?

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Hannes Knutsson/notes

I made some note about a new trash can, some new bench and some new stairs.

  • strubbl@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Yes, this is one way. But you can use StreetComplete’s overlay feature (since release https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/releases/tag/v57.0) to directly add benches and trash cans. This helps in avoiding to flood the note system with very small map features. When the overlay feature was not implemented i also added a lot of notes or benches/bins, but got a lot attention of other mapper because of this. So i switched to using OSMTracker to take notes. But now, i am a very happy user of the new things overlay.

    Adding stairs is also possible, but a bit more complicated, so adding a note is fine.

    Do you know this overlay feature already? This is definitely worth to check out.