Hi all,
I develop GetIt., a location-based reminder app, and I want to flag a small organised editing activity here before the first upload rather than after. Some of our users save places that are not on OpenStreetMap yet, and we have built a pipeline to offer those places to OSM.
What gets added: a node with the name the user typed themselves, at the point they tapped themselves, plus a category they picked from a fixed list. Nothing else. No addresses, no opening hours, no contributor identity.
Where the data comes from: the user’s own first-hand knowledge of the place, which the app asks them to confirm immediately before contributing.
How it works: every contribution is reviewed by a person before anything is uploaded. Review checks it against existing OSM data by proximity and by name, plus a live API check at review time, so anything already mapped is dropped rather than duplicated. Positions are checked against imagery. A name that is a personal note rather than the name on the sign gets corrected, or the row gets rejected. Anything I cannot verify is filed as a public note for local mappers instead of being edited directly. Uploads are manual, through JOSM, one small changeset per session.
Account and tags: all edits go out as LogicMind, with source=local knowledge, the hashtag #getit, and a link to the activity page in the changeset comment.
Activity page: Organised Editing/Activities/GetIt.
Volume: low. This is a trickle of individual places as users contribute them, not an import. Locations follow wherever our users happen to be, so they will be scattered rather than concentrated in one area.
If something looks wrong, comment on the changeset or email support@logicmind.com and I will respond and revert. Feedback on tagging conventions, or on anything you would rather we left alone, is genuinely welcome now rather than after the fact.
Thanks,
LogicMind