Hi, that is an excellent question, but I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to achieve.
Are you trying to add some virtual points to a trip you are planning? (i.e. "at this point, I will have travelled 1 mile")
Or are you trying to add physical milestones (or historical milestones) into the shared geospation database called "OpenStreetMap"?
If so, the approach will be completely different.
No. Both package the same OSM-data, but they use a different binary format.
Maybe checkout https://yosmhm.neis-one.org and http://hdyc.neis-one.org/ for cool maps. The first one is a heatmap of all your changes.
NextCloud has a PhoneTrack plugin
The rule is that we don't map temporary stuff (such as events).
However, nothing is truly permanent. So, it depends a bit. If you have road works lasting for one week, feel free to map them and to restore it as not-working a week later ;)
Road works lasting >6 months are typically mapped - at least in my experience. There are no hard rules about this though and there is no consensus in the community. At last, have a look to the lifecycle prefixes: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lifecycle_prefix
Try OsmAnd or Organic Maps. The first one has many features but is less user friendly.
Google is supposed not to copy OSM...
Hi! Wrong sub? No worries, our ~~subreddit~~community (!openstreetmap@lemmy.ml) is right here as well!
Did you also know that Apple Maps and Bing Maps use OSM data too in some areas, for some types of categories? Bing even has cloned an OSM-editing program.
Furthermore, you can use https://mapcomplete.osm.be to add shops or other POI. (Obligatory shill as I'm the main dev of that one ;) )
pietervdvn
You can get the fully unlocked version from F-Droid as well