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Professional support with MapComplete
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The developer of MapComplete offers professional support. This document outlines some of the possibilities, pitfalls and common questions.
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What about vandalism?
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What can MapComplete do for your organisation?
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As anyone can edit the data, it is indeed possible that a malicious change is made. However, this is extremely rare for a few reasons:
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Maintaining a set of up-to-date geodata is hard, error prone and expensive.
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- the technical barrier to make changes is high
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- a small malicious change has low impact, thus little reward for a vandal
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- a high impact change is quickly noticed and reverted since so many people use this data
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- all changes are tracked and tied to a single user. A repeating offender is quickly banned
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- In Belgium (and some other countries), the first edit by a new contributor is systematically checked and corrected if needed.
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To add insult to injury, many organizations end up collecting the same data independently - resulting in duplicated efforts, non-standardized data formats and many incomplete datasets.
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At the same time, there is a huge community which gathers a lot of geodata into one shared and standardized database - namely OpenStreetMap.org.
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This dataset has a very liberal license which allows for infinite reuse but can be hard to edit, especially for non-technical users as most OpenStreetMap editors show _all_ data at once.
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A user who wishes to update information on their topic of choice (e.g. a bench, a shop, a waste basket, ...) is confronted with every street, every building and every other feature nearby.
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MapComplete is the in-between solution, offering a more traditional map focused on just one topic while offering powerful editing capabilities disguised as simple-to-use building blocks.
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What data can be found in OpenStreetMap?
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OpenStreetMap is a shared, global database, built by volunteers. All geodata can be contributed to OpenStreetMap, as long as **it can be verified on the ground**.
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OpenStreetMap has grown to be a very broad and deep dataset as it contains data over thousands of categories of objects.
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An individual object might also have a ton of attributes, bringing a lot of nuance, e.g.:
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- Streets have geometry, but might also have information about the maxspeed, surface, wether they are lit, their name, a link to Wikipedia, a link to what they are named after, which hiking-, cycle- and busroutes run over theme
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- Shops and other amenities might have opening hours, a phone number, a link to the website, which payment methods are supported, what they sell, which services they offer, ...
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- Toilets might have information about wheelchair accessibility, a changing table, if payment is needed, ...
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- and much, much more...
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Using MapComplete in your organization
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What are the survey possibilities?
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MapComplete also is an easy to use survey tool. It is ideal to collect the necessary data in a few clicks, both on desktop and on mobile.
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MapComplete is an easy to use _survey_ tool. It is ideal to collect the necessary in a few clicks, both on desktop and on mobile. This data is contributed directly into OpenStreetMap.
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We can setup a custom survey tool, asking precisely the data you need in a future-proof way.
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MapComplete can show your dataset and OpenStreetMap at the same time, making it easier to visit all the locations and to see what the community already contributed.
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Benefits of the OSM-ecosystem!
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It can be very hard to leave your own dataset behind, as building this dataset often took a lot of time and effort.
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However, the benefits of switching over to OSM are huge:
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- You are not alone anymore to gather and maintain this dataset - a whole community is at your side
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- Your data will reach a bigger audience then ever via Bing Maps, Apple Maps, Facebook, Instagram, Pokemon Go, OsmAnd, Organic Maps, Maps.me, Mapbox, Komoot, nearly all cycle-applications, ...
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- Many governement organisations and municipalities use OpenStreetMap on their websites too
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What about vandalism?
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As anyone can edit the data, it is indeed possible that a malicious change is made. However, this is extremely rare for a few reasons:
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- the technical barrier to make changes is high
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- a small malicious change has low impact, thus little reward for a vandal
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- a high impact change is quickly noticed and reverted since so many people use this data
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- all changes are tracked and tied to a single user. A repeating offender is quickly banned
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- In Belgium (and some other countries), the first edit by a new contributor is systematically checked and corrected if needed.
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Using the data in internal processes
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The data can also be retrieved for free via an API-call if an automated setup is needed.
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Some drawbacks
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While joining this community has tremendous benefits, there are a few topics to carefully consider.
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### Data not suited for OpenStreetMap
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## Data not suited for OpenStreetMap
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MapComplete is built to upload data changes to OpenStreetMap, which needs verifiability.
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The basic rule for OpenStreetMap is that all data must be verifiable on the ground and are somewhat permanent.
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This implies that some data _cannot_ be sent to OpenStreetMap directly - but some workarounds exist.
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- Subjective data (such as reviews) are not suited for OpenStreetMap. However, MapComplete has an integration with Mangrove.reviews, an openly licenses review website
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- OpenStreetMap only gathers on features that are somewhat permanent and are visible on the ground. Road works that are planned next month are thus _not_ recorded, neither are road works which only last a few days.
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- Temporal data (e.g. statistics of air quality, traffic intensity, ...) can not stored on OpenStreetMap as they are hard to verify by a volunteer. _MapComplete can still visualize this data, if provided in a compatible format though_
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- Subjective data (such as reviews) are not suited for OpenStreetMap. However, MapComplete has an integration with Mangrove.reviews, an openly licensed review website
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- Events of a few days, road works that are planned next month are thus _not_ recorded, neither are road works which only last a few days.
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- Temporal data (e.g. statistics of air quality, traffic intensity, ...) can not stored on OpenStreetMap as they are hard to verify by a volunteer. Note that, if this data is available elsewhere, it can still be visualized though.
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### Licensing nuances
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"downloadGpx": "Download as GPX-file",
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"downloadGpxHelper": "A GPX-file can be used with most navigation devices and applications",
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"uploadGpx": "Upload your track to OpenStreetMap",
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"exporting": "Exporting…",
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"downloadGeoJsonHelper": "Compatible with QGIS, ArcGIS, ESRI, …",
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"downloadCSV": "Download visible data as CSV",
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"miscCookies": "MapComplete integrates with various other services, especially to load images of features. Images are hosted on various third-party servers, which might set cookies on their own.",
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"whileYoureHere": "Do you care about privacy?",
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"surveillance": "As you are reading the privacy policy, you probably care about privacy - so do we! We even made <a href='https://mapcomplete.osm.be/surveillance'>a theme showing surveillance cameras.</a> Feel free to map them all!"
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"professional": {
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"title": "Professional support with MapComplete",
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"intro": "The developer of MapComplete offers professional support. This document outlines some of the possibilities, common questions and the boundaries of MapComplete",
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"osmTitle": "What can OpenStreetMap and MapComplete do for your organisation?",
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"osmText": "Maintaining a set of up-to-date geodata is hard, error prone and expensive.<br/>To add insult to injury, many organizations end up collecting the same data independently - resulting in duplicated efforts, non-standardized data formats and many incomplete, unmaintained datasets.<br/>At the same time, there is a huge community which gathers a lot of geodata into one shared, global and standardized database - namely OpenStreetMap.org.<br/>This dataset has a very liberal license which allows for infinite reuse but can be hard to edit, especially for non-technical users as most OpenStreetMap editors show <i>all</i> data at once and require some technical knowledge.A user who wishes to update information on their topic of choice (e.g. a bench, a shop, a waste basket, ...) is confronted with every street, every building and every other feature nearby.<br/> MapComplete is the in-between solution, offering a more traditional map focused on just one topic while offering powerful editing capabilities disguised as simple-to-use building blocks.",
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"aboutOsm": {
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"title": "What is OpenStreetMap and why use it in your organisation?",
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"intro": "OpenStreetMap is a shared, global database, built by volunteers. All geodata can be contributed to OpenStreetMap, as long as <b>it can be verified on the ground</b>.<br/> OpenStreetMap has grown to be a very broad and deep dataset as it contains data over thousands of categories of objects.An individual object might also have a ton of attributes, bringing a lot of nuance, e.g.:",
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"li0": "Streets have geometry, but might also have information about the maxspeed, surface, wether they are lit, their name, a link to Wikipedia, a link to what they are named after, which hiking-, cycle- and busroutes run over theme",
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"li1": "Shops and other amenities might have opening hours, a phone number, a link to the website, which payment methods are supported, what they sell, which services they offer, ...",
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"li2": "Toilets might have information about wheelchair accessibility, a changing table, if payment is needed, ...",
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"li3": "and much, much more...",
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"benefits": {
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"title": "Benefits of the OSM-ecosystem",
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"intro": "It can be very hard to leave your own dataset behind, as building this dataset often took a lot of time and effort.<br/>However, the benefits of switching over to OSM are huge:",
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"li0": "You are not alone anymore to gather and maintain this dataset - a whole community is at your side",
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"li1": "Your data will reach a bigger audience then ever via Bing Maps, Apple Maps, Facebook, Instagram, Pokemon Go, OsmAnd, Organic Maps, Maps.me, Mapbox, Komoot, nearly all cycle-applications, ...",
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"li2": "Many governement organisations and municipalities use OpenStreetMap on their websites too"
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},
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"license": {
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"title": "The license",
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"intro": "OpenStreetMap is licensed under the Open Database License. The [full copyright text](https://osm.org/copyright) can be summarized as following:",
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"li0": "A product using OpenStreetMap data must give attribution.",
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"li1": "OpenStreetMap-data must remain _open_. This means that data of a map containing OpenStreetMap data can be copied again.",
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"outro": "The license has a few implications - these are explained below."
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},
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"vandalism": {
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"title": "What about vandalism?",
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"intro": "As anyone can edit the data, it is indeed possible that a malicious change is made. However, this is extremely rare for a few reasons:",
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"li0": "the technical barrier to make changes is high",
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"li1": "a small malicious change has low impact, thus little reward for a vandal",
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"li": "a high impact change is quickly noticed and reverted since so many people use this data",
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"li": "all changes are tracked and tied to a single user. A repeating offender is quickly banned",
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"li": "In Belgium (and some other countries), the first edit by a new contributor is systematically checked and corrected if needed."
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}
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}
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}
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