Terence Eden

3 days ago

Terence Eden
3 days ago

🆕 blog! “OpenBenches 💖 OpenStreetMap”

When Liz and I created the OpenBenches website, it was just designed to be a fun way for people to record memorial benches. Since then things have got out of hand and we now have over thirty-nine thousand benches recorded!

Our plan was never to compete with something like OpenStreetMap. The OSM project is vast, complex, and…

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/openbenches-%f0%9f%92%96-openstreetmap/

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Ed

in reply to Terence Eden 3 days ago

That's awesome. Love that you can link them in StreetComplete, will try that out.

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Pietervdvn

in reply to Ed 3 days ago

@edbo No, you can link them with @MapComplete - a different app

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Ed

in reply to Pietervdvn 3 days ago

@pietervdvn @MapComplete Ah yeah I misread that, thank you

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Simon Hewison

in reply to Terence Eden 3 days ago

MapComplete or MapRoulette? Your post seems to start mentioning one then describing the other.

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Terence Eden

in reply to Simon Hewison 3 days ago

@zymurgic AIUI, MapRoulette is a feature of MapComplete. Unless I’ve misunderstood?

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Simon Hewison

in reply to Terence Eden 3 days ago

I thought they were two separate means to similar ends. Can't see how to get from mapcomplete to the 'Bench' quest that has screenshots of Maproulette's web application. Would love to link some of the nearby benches, but can't quite work out how to get it.

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Pietervdvn

in reply to Simon Hewison 3 days ago

@zymurgic @MapComplete uses MapRoulette to store which benches should still be linked - but that is (mostly) hidden from the users view

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