Notices by Every Door OSM Editor (everydoor@en.osm.town)

I have published the alpha version for which you can build plugins! See the link and the documentation here: https://izv.ee/everydoor/plugins/

Made with @NGIZero support. People from the community (@foxy) have already started poking at it:

Every Door 5.3 has been published to AppStore, Google Play, and of course GitHub. F-Droid pending.

Not much new, just updates to imagery and presets, support for "geo:" links (idk why), and — special presets for xmas:feature! Go map christmas trees and markets, it's time!

Pictured: market in Tallinn, though not from this year (but it doesn't change much). Photo by Andreas May / Shutterstock.com (snatched from Postimees).

While LLM output looks promising and true, there is always something wrong — and you won't find it unless you have experience in the subject area.

For carthography AI is especially bad, because nobody writes proper documentation, so there is nothing to train on.

Here are three examples of Ian's LLM photo-to-tags bridge integrated into Every Door. While opening hours detection works great, everything else... Can you spot what's wrong in each tag list?

#30DayMapChallenge

Drawing maps with pen and paper is fun — and Every Door removes that completely!

I mean, it was great going around and marking stuff on paper, but having to enter everything in JOSM when you're back home was daunting.

Hence, everything we did on paper before, now is possible inside Every Door. It makes surveying so much more efficient and rewarding! And no more printing and wasting trees.

#30DayMapChallenge

I was always fascinated with how far OSM reaches. You can zoom out the map in Every Door to the max, scroll to the Arctic, zoom back in, and find a town at 78° latitude where every cafe and hotel are mapped. And confirmed just a few months ago — albeit with @streetcomplete .

#30DayMapChallenge

How do I know who and when edited a place? On the editor pane header there is a clock button, which shows the object history, highlighting tag changes. Go back in time and see how OSM grew!

Thanks to George Honeywood for submitting a pull request adding that panel.

#30DayMapChallenge

In the past couple weeks, I'm increasingly looking towards @MapComplete : its thematic editing and linear geometry tools would be very helpful when I finally get myself to survey speed limits in my area.

Every Door can do much, but not all. That's why many mappers have multiple apps on their phones: StreetComplete, Organic Maps, OsmAnd, Vespucci, Go Map... And MapComplete in a browser tab.

#30DayMapChallenge

First year after I published the app, I was visiting @pascal_n 's ResultMaps multiple times a week. Wished for numbers to go up faster. More users! More edits! Compared those to StreetComplete's and got sadder because of that.

Statistics is bad for your mental health. I have since stopped looking at user counts, likes and boosts, removed tracking from all my websites. And nothing of value was lost.

#30DayMapChallenge

Oof, had to make a break, because the "my data" day sent me wondering. It's OSM, all data is my data. And yours too.

Having mapped a lot this month, Every Door greets me with a warning it has too much data. How do I clean it up?

Via settings, of course. First you delete old data, and then, if you want, — the rest of it.

Why is there such a button? Well, in early development the editor got very slow after ~20 thousand objects downloaded. Now 100k are fine.

#30DayMapChallenge

No choropleths in Every Door, had to parse the changeset dump to get countries where the most edits (changesets) were uploaded this year with the editor. Not all countries were expected!

#30DayMapChallenge

OpenStreetMap is a collaborative map, and Every Door is often used at mapping parties, where people go outside and map everything they see.

I have thought of how to improve this simultaneous mapping experience. Next year you will be able to share task areas from a geojson. We could also have a server for live edits and show amenities touched by somebody else (and not uploaded yet). And why even show features for confirmation outside your mapping zone?

#30DayMapChallenge

"Simple 3D Buildings" is the base OSM tagging schema, which everybody interested in looking at 3D landscapes learns about. It is indeed simple — and the most popular part of it are building heights and roof shapes.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_3D_Buildings

Every Door has a special panel for editing those attributes. Just in five taps you can make a rendered building look like a real one. Sometimes I add missing data (gray labels on the picture) on my walk from a bus stop or a remote shop.

#30DayMapChallenge

The amenity mode in Every Door replaces an interactive map with a list. But even in this form, data would take too much space — since I want to see all the important data. Shop type, opening hours, phone, payment options, accessibility... How do you print those without each card taking up half a phone screen?

Emoji! There is a library of emoji for many OSM amenity types, and also symbols for each of the important attributes. To me, it's immediately readable and compact.

#30DayMapChallenge

OSM is not a single thing, as its data model implies, but a mess of hundreds of layers. Some visible, some aren't. Some attract corporate interest, some cause community fights now and then. Some neglected.

With Every Door, I am targeting POI in OSM: previously so hard to maintain, mappers just tended to ignore them, or focus on a narrow subset.

Now I can finally trust search results in my city more than Google's or any of the open alternatives. And we're just starting!

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