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Street Complete is basically dysfunctional. (slrpnk.net)
submitted 1 year ago by activistPnk@slrpnk.net to c/osmand@lemmy.ml
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Street Complete is quite dysfunctional for me. I just get a beige background with icons (+) (-) (ø) ≡. Long tapping gives:

  • create new note
  • create new track recording
  • open location in another app

There is no way to specify a location to edit. If I go online and turn on GPS, the screen fills with questions to answer but still no map.

How do I get a map?

How do I specify a location to go to?

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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What platform are you on? I'm on Android 8.0 and I see the map. Does you area show up on openstreetmap.org ?

I'm a novice user so I mostly click around confirming crosswalks sidewalk materials :p

[–] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

AOS 5.

My area is well mapped if that’s what you’re asking. The openstreetmap.org is no longer accessible because it became a Cloudflare site, but OSMand shows that the map covers the area I was in back when I tested Street Complete while online with GPS running. That test was actually a few weeks ago, before openstreetmap.org became a restricted access website (so Cloudflare is unrelated to this particular problem).

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have ideas what could be causing the issue? Like I said, I'm a novice, and by the sounds of it you sound like you know a lot more about this ecosystem than I do.

Really hoping for a dev or someone to wander in here...

[–] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The only thing I can think of is that my phone forces all traffic over Tor. It’s possible that wherever StreetComplete goes to fetch maps may be a Tor-hostile server, and StreetComplete does not bother to inform the user. I could try making a config exception to direct StreetComplete traffic to the clearnet. Maybe I’ll try that the next time I have an unlimited connection at my disposal.

This would be an interesting test for others to try: use SC with tor and without tor and see if there’s a difference.

[–] goldfndr@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

StreetComplete fetches (and uploads) OSM data via the OpenStreetMap API and uses a basemap from Jawg maps. If those are effectively firewalled off…

Updated versions of StreetComplete include log views.

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Sir, this is a Wendy's...

Wait, no. Uh, StreetComplete is an editor for OpenStreetMap. These are used to update the OSM (OpenStreetMap) data.

There are other editors too like:

If you want navigation (directions to go somewhere), those are different apps:

The OSM StreetComplete is a mobile editor designed to make it easy to make updates to OSM. Therefore, easy means the edits are much more constrained, especially to your local area. If you want full editing power, you need a powerful editor like JOSM.

If you want directions, then you need OsmAnd or Organic Maps.

[–] activistPnk@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate the info. JOSM is java which gives me issues. OSM’s website is Cloudflare (a non-starter for me.. I won’t touch Cloudflare). I did not know about rapideditor.org, so I’ll have to check that out.

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago

Gottcha.

FYI, rapideditor.org is made by Facebook... :( which may or may not be a deal breaker.

Also, here's a list of a bunch of editors: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Comparison_of_editors

I saw there is one based on Qt. Maybe that could be a viable alternative to the Java one. I haven't tried it though.