Running around with StreetComplete, the app sometimes tells me to leave a note instead, which I do. Short time later, I receive an email that another person has resolved my note. That’s nice, but wouldn’t it be better to do it all on my own?
I think I need a more powerful Editor for that, and installed Vespucci. Now I’m scared to break things. What are the next steps, how to proceed?
Right, how do they do this? Is there a ticket system of some sorts to which one has to subscribe? Or did they just happen to browse the area proactively shortly after I was leaving a note?
I feel taking that seat, viewing things from that perspective might help me learn about the next steps.
Also thanks to all other replies, will check them out in time.
I am a OSM notes “specialist”. The notes will appear in your OSM profile, you can go there and find them one by one, but if you’re using StreetComplete they’ll be all together, you just need to activate the Notes layer in ID.
Other way to find notes to solve is by visiting the the Neis Pascal site with your specific country of interest, like https://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-notes-country?c=Canada
You don’t need a third party for that, you can subscribe to an rss feed of notes from an area straight from osm, just change the bounding box in this url: https://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/notes/feed?bbox=18.9154,47.3695,19.2686,47.6182
This also documented in the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Notes#Monitoring_notes_in_a_selected_area
Sure, you don’t need a third party. I simply find it more practical.
I hate seeing unresolved notes in my area. They can often sit for over a year, and then we don’t know if the information is still relevant. So when someone creates a note in my neighborhood, I try to make the necessary changes right away. I leave the notes layer on in the website and check them out whenever I’m verifying changes in my neighborhood.
Haha, I guess that’s the spirit! The other things you say make also make lots of sense. I also feel the completionist’s call. Hence I’m here, to become a bee like you. And sorry for creating notes.
What exactly is “the notes layer in the website”, and how do you check it out? Is it as simple as pressing F5?
I think my area (Hamburg, Germany) is free from notes in quite a wide radius. So maybe other diligent workers are doing the same here.
When you open openstreetmap.org, on the right-hand side there are some buttons. Click the one that looks like a stack of papers (it’ll say “layers” when you hover it) and there will be an option to enable a notes overlay.
In the editor on the site (called iD) you click the icon on the right that looks like a line and a square (Map Data on hover, or press the U key) and it will have an option to show notes as well.
Generally I leave notes alone for a week or two to see if the user intends to resolve it themself (I talk to myself a lottttt in notes while I’m surveying) but if it’s still there after that, I do my best to resolve it.
You probably can monitor them somewhere (maybe OSMCha?) but I just encounter notes randomly in StreetComplete. Then I’ll switch to Vespucci and try to do something about it.
There are a lot of tools to monitor changes in osm, To check notes regularly you can use several tools, they are listed in the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Notes#Monitoring_notes_in_a_selected_area
For checking all changes on the map there are other tools: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_viewer#OSM_changeset_viewer
I personally use osmcha.org regularly and an rss feeds of notes, in my area.
@Spzi @twistypencil I’ve a few RSS feeds in area of interest which I check daily to keep it sorta clean
https://tyrasd.github.io/osm-qa-feeds/