12mo ago

Street Complete is basically dysfunctional.

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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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:
JOSM https://josm.openstreetmap.de/
iD https://www.openstreetmap.org/ (the edit button)
Rapid https://rapideditor.org/
If you want navigation (directions to go somewhere), those are different apps:
OsmAnd https://osmand.net/ (you are here)
Organic Maps https://organicmaps.app/
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.
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
- 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).
  
  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...

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