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Street Complete Notes - Am I doing this right? (feddit.nu)

submitted 2 months ago by hanke@feddit.nu to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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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%20Knutsson/notes

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

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[–] strubbl@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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 for benches/bins, but got a lot attention of other mappers 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.

[–] hanke@feddit.nu 2 points 2 months ago

No, I thought the overlays were just sets of different types of quests I could use depending on what I wanted to work on.

Thanks for pointing this out!

[–] setto@fed.dyne.org 1 points 2 months ago

ah wow! Thank you very much!

[–] cosmoscoffee@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How do you add stairs in StreetComplete? I already had a few situations where knowing how to add stairs on an existing path while being outside would have been really useful

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You actually don't need a quest, although it does make it easier to access. If you go to the "Surface" layer you can add steps like so:

Tap on a path to select it.
If you need to select a smaller section, tap the 3 dots in the bottom left and select "Split Way".
To make them steps, tap the 3 dots in the bottom left and tap "These are steps".

[–] cosmoscoffee@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

I just tried it and it worked! Thank you so much, that was really helpful!

[–] strubbl@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You need a quest for the way you want to add stairs to. Then when answering you select the other option ("Äh…") different along the way ("entlang des weges unterschiedlich"). Now you can zoom in and split the way. Split it where the first and where the last step of the stairs is. Now you made three ways out of the one. The middle way should be the stairs. A quest should be ready to be answered for the way part to be stairs. Select this quest and go to other answers ("Äh…") and select the option is actually steps ("Das ist eine Treppe"). Now you changed the way part to be stairs.