OpenStreetMap community

Organic Maps has faced some recent controversy, circling around use of donations to fund personal vacations, development of some functionality in private repositories, commercials partners (e.g. Kayak), and hints that they're building the company to sell for profit.

I can't speak to the truth of all this, but CoMaps is a stable community fork with active development and FOSS-embracing principles.

But please do not do this if you commute by car or bike :)

Well, I am also a "newbie" for OSM. But for building outline mapping it's done on OSM editors, not with the StreetComplete app. So not sure if this can be automated. Most work is done manually, I believe. If you check out https://osmlab.github.io/show-me-the-way/ you will see how people are mapping their neighbourhood manually, too! - Yes, such a crazy community this is!

For example, notes like “they don’t show their opening hours” when asked about opening hours of some POI. As you can see, these answers as notes do not add information to the POI at all.

No, this is actually somewhat useful. At least you should add opening_hours:signed=no for cases like this. If the hours are not specified at all (as they are for some places), use opening_hours=unknown.

The reason this is useful is so to specify that someone tried to figure out the opening hours, but there aren't any, so at least for a while there's no reason to check again.

For example, notes like “they don’t show their opening hours” when asked about opening hours

Guessing this is probably someone less tech savvy who were asked this and they felt they had to answer even if they can't give anything meaningful. I see this on reviews a lot where the website will ask buyers about a product and get a lot of I don't knows.

Well, that sounds like an app issue. Because this is one of the standard answers when you don't find opening hours. Sure, it's no "new" information, but at least you now know from the note that somebody has tried checking this, without success. - Is there a better way, in your opinion?

By far the easiest to get started with is StreetComplete. You go around answering questions.

For example:

Afaik you can't add new roads for example in it, I am sure there are other tools for that, I just haven't tried any.

I have found Street Complete to be perfectly useable with nothing more than the advice that's in the app. For some of the details of how things should be classified I found the discussion pages on the relevant map features on the wiki ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_features ) to be useful, though I have no idea if that's actually the best source

If you don't wanna do streetcomplete like Skua said but rather have more of a mission to enter every dog poop bag station in your area or whatever give it a quick google, if stumped, ask around on the forums. From my experience the OSM community is incredibly friendly to newcomers trying to contribute. I once fucked up like 50 entries when I had a field day and some guy just mailed me saying he fixed them all and how to do it properly in a very nice way

Right you are! Did not checked when copying the title. But now it's edited.

If you can pay "on the spot" (e.g. via a parking meter or an app or something like that), then you should answer yes (it will set fee=yes on that parking). Otherwise (e.g. if you must purchase a parking permit before you park), answer no and set membership=yes via some other editor.

Usually, in the StreetComplete App, you only add what is missing to one specific object. (As far as I have understood.) If you want to make sure that all parking spots in the neighbourhood are equally set, you have to double-check in the OSM web-editor. (That's how I do it.)