- I know this is a bad way to express it but do wish that #streetcomplete and @MapComplete #mapcomplete would get together with @panoramax and gitlab.com/ravenfeld/baba to have a baby.

Streetcomplete is so good when you are wandering past somewhere and think “That shop or thing should be on Openstreetmap” - so you pull together some details into streetcomplete - but then you think “A few photos of this place would be really handy” so you open Baba and take some photos of the exterior or street around it but while they are geolocated next to the location they aren’t linked to the shop/feature or whatever.

I’m tempted to jump into Mapcomplete because yes if its an existing place I can fill in some more details (once I go through and find the location in the relevant filters ) but if I’ve just added it it won’t be in mapcomplete even though I would love to add those photos - answer a few questions about the place and even pop in a review.

What I’ve realised that is random geolocated street photos are a mine of geocodble info.

Don’t get me wrong - all of these apps are amazing! - I’m so thankful to all the amazing work that people have done on them … I recommend them to friends but I just wish I was skilled enough to help bring them together and make something even more beautiful …

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    @pietervdvn Yeah I was aware that I could push the created item from streetcomplete into OSM and then it would be on Mapcomplete - that has been handy.

    I didn’t know about the see nearby images feature - I’ll have to check it out.

    Whats the situation with images that get uploaded via mapcomplete - I do see them in panoramax so its all flowing together there somehow.

    Please don’t think that anythign I was saying was a criticism - there is such cool functionality there across all those apps.

    I think what I was expressing is that I find myself similar actions / use cases from different angles you sometimes end up sort of switching apps and then thinking gosh I really should link this stuff together.