Hello Tim, thank you for the broad explanation of your product!
I like the concept and me have some particular use cases for which we now use Flickr. I would love to have an alternative to that which could be maintained by a community that is closely related to OpenStreetMap. My usecases are particular for non-google-dominated areas; where users not only enter travel pictures; but also pictures related to particular causes; for instance waste, standing water, hazards and more. They are users which are not so tech-savvy but have an urgent need to tell "a story" to government, officials, police or other matters of public interest. So a POI database with the possibility to enter pictures and information that relate to the Sustainable Development Goals would be awesome. I would love to collaborate on such a project. Kind regards Milo 2018-05-11 17:19 GMT+02:00 Tim Frey <tim.f...@iunera.com>: > Greetings OSM community, > > > > my name is Tim and I’m one of the creators of the STAPPZ app. We want > feedback from the community about our open sourcing plan of the STAPPZ app > content. > > > > What is STAPPZ: > > STAPPZ is in short an app and a server backend application. The original > idea was to create crowdsourced version of an insider travel guide, where > each user can contribute content. > > That means, you open the app and you post some pictures and a text at a > geolocation and when you are online, then the content is uploaded to the > server and is available on a webmap. This way, you can create a personal > travel diary map. Our original plan was to extend STAPPZ step by step to > create not only travel guides, but to also add pictures of POIs > > Example: https://maps.stappz.com/region/sicilia > > Android App demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDBh-VrU2Ig > > Explanation slides: https://de.slideshare.net/TimFrey2/travel-guides-are- > old-news-being-a-local-insider-everywhere-is-today > > Background: > > We managed to get featured with the app at conferences and in a lot of > magazines (e.g. Computer Bild, Chip) and got over 10k downloads for > Android, but, frankly speaking, we did not get mass adaption to create a > sustainable ecosystem. Therefore, we as company had to focus on other > projects to earn money for living ☹ . > > > > Feedback wanted: > > We poured a lot of our personal tears and sweat in coding and marketing > STAPPZ and today we think that STAPPZ could be used to create picture POI > content for OSM. We see that need in special, because google maps is > offering more and more picture POI content from users, and I, personally, > do not know such an open datapod for open streetmap. > > Out of this, we consider, heavily, to “open source” the licensing of the > user created STAPPZ content for the OSM community. In addition, we also > consider to open source the backend of STAPPZ and the IOS and Android app > to make a community project out of it. However, we are a very small company > and we cannot do that completely alone, we will need help and advice from > the community. > > > > Technical details: > > Internally, in the app and the backend, we use only OSM data and maps to > ensure not being bound to legal contracts to google. The Android version is > far more developed than the IOS version and has complete offline and > caching functionality to allow posting of pictures form the gallery and to > position the pictures on a map. Currently, the maps part of the app does > not work for Android, but we want to enable it as soon as we have time. > > STAPPZ supports gallery uploads with exif data, cached content and many > more things – if you got questions please ask. > > > > Questions to the community: > > What do you think about open sourcing the content, the app and so on? Do > you see a value added for the OSM community? > Would you support the project to open source it? > > Do you know companies who would be interested in participating? We are > open for collaborations here. > > Do you have own thoughts and points about it? > > > > I’d really like to learn more here. STAPPZ is a really personal baby for > us, and we’d like that it continues to live. > > > > Thanks a lot for everyone in advance who reads that – and even more thanks > to the ones who are going to reply with feedback and thoughts. > > Even if you just think the idea is good or bad – please tell us that we > get a picture how the whole community sees it. > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards > > Tim Frey > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- [image: http://www.dogodigi.net] <http://www.dogodigi.net> *Milo van der Linden* web: dogodigi <http://www.dogodigi.net> tel: +31-6-16598808
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