Notes/Applications using notes
The following applications use the Notes feature:
| Name | Web | Can create | Can view | Can edit | Can close | Can report | Create with a linked photo | View linked photo | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenStreetMap website | osm.org | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| JOSM | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | supports these actions for notes: Download in area, search, create new, comment, close or reopen. | See the notes dialog help.
In recent versions, when a note is being close, it will include the most recent changeset number. | ||||
| NoteSolver (a JOSM plugin) | GitHub | Yes | This plugin eases the work of closing notes by adding an automatic changeset message and a note-closing message. | |||||||
| iD | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | supports Notes creation and editing, but doesn't show Notes by default. | Use the "Map data" menu on the right and check "OpenStreetMap Notes". | |||
| Every Door | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Vespucci | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | a mobile app supporting Notes creation, viewing and closing. | |||||
| SCEE | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | A streetComplete fork with more options. | |||||
| StreetComplete | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | StreetComplete shows notes that include questions and can be configured to show all of them. StreetComplete users can also manually leave notes, especially when objects for given quest is outdated (for example user is asked about opening hours of shop that is gone). StreetComplete has special support for easy way of making photos and including them in a note as links.
Answering using note is available in situation where due to unexpected or outdated OSM data question makes no sense. For example user asked about surface of a road that does no longer exists may create note "This road is no longer existing" and attach a photo. Note that numerous cases where special features were added to handle cases that required notes in past. StreetComplete has support for splitting roads (for example, if surface changes road can be split in two), marking shops as vacant, tagging new POI that replaced shop, deleting no longer existing point POIs (unless they are part of way or relation)... |
Photos are deleted some weeks after the notes are resolved. | ||||
| OsmAnd | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | latest versions support opening, commenting on, and closing Map Notes (also through a plugin that you need to activate through the app settings). | See: OsmAnd > Features > OSM Editing plugin. | ||||
| Go Map!! | bryceco/GoMap GitHub | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | A OSM editing app for iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, and visionOS that supports the creation, viewing, commenting, and closing of notes. | ||||
| OSM Note viewer | Anton's note viewer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | a web interface for searching notes. | This tool can create notes in OpenHistoricalMap and other platforms. | |||
| MapComplete | Mapcomplete Notes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | a web interface for searching notes by user, keyword and dates. | Notes are published in Igmur. |
| ResultMaps | Notes per country | Yes | Website to show statistics about OSM.
Statistics for the number of note actions (open, closed, reopen, comment) filterable by country. The top users by number of created/closed notes and in the Board, and the you need to switch to notes tab. |
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| Notes Map | Notes Map | Yes | shows Notes with different icons depending on the content. | |||||||
| OsmBugs | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| NotesReview | NotesReview | Yes | Yes | Yes | a web interface for searching notes by user, keyword and dates. | |||||
| OpenStreetMap Notes Heatmap | Notes heatmap | Yes* | A heatmap view of OpenStreetMap notes, with links to others tools. | *It shows a heatmap instead of individual notes.
This provides analytics on notes. | ||||||
| OSMfocus Reborn | OSMfocus Reborn | Yes | ||||||||
| My OpenStreetMap Notes | My OpenStreetMap Notes | Yes | allows you to filter open Notes a user added or participated in. | |||||||
| Locus | Yes | Yes | a mobile app, can show and create notes and you can comment on them. | |||||||
| OSM Report | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| OnOSM.org | Yes | encourages its users to add business listings, with the fields placed within a note. | ||||||||
| Fediphoto | Yes | Yes | An Android application that allows to post photos in the Fediverse, linking them into an OSM note. | Photos are published in a configured Mastodon instance, like the one for OSM: en.osm.town | ||||||
| Organic Maps | Yes | Mobile application that allow to create notes. | ||||||||
| OsmAPP | Yes | |||||||||
| OSMyBiz | Yes | Creates a note from a template. | ||||||||
| random-osm-note | Yes | See a random note from any country. |
Tools for notes:
- Download OSM Notes as GPX file from a bounding box using a tool by richlv in perl, or a tool by SomeoneElse in Java (which can also get "fixmes"). The Notes #Notes API also supports GPX format directly.
- Download OSM Notes as KML file via http://harrywood.co.uk/maps/notes/kml/ (e.g. for MAPS.ME bookmarks)
- A bookmarklet: that links a Note to an overpass-turbo query of the map data at the time of Note creation. Helpful to understand if an issue has been fixed or not.
- Bookmarklet helpers for resolving OSM Notes - two javascripts to view OSM data snapshot at the time of note creation and to translate the note.
- Oldest OSM Notes by Country.
Links
- Search applications on the wiki that allow notes.
- Comparison of app that use notes: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/AngocA/diary/398995