OpenStreetMap
I started working on @osmthis twitter account which allows to post any geotagged tweets to OSM as notes. For instance, it’s possible to use skitch/twitter to publish photos of cafe bills. These bills usually contain usable information as the cafe’s address, phone, website etc. To use it you just need to mention @osmthis in your tweet.
Examples:
- https://twitter.com/sashazykov/status/459576876395028480 -> http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/156665
- https://twitter.com/sashazykov/status/460662527945232386 -> http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/158563
This project is OpenSource. You can find it at github.
Discussion
Comment from Stalfur on 7 May 2014 at 15:09
Looks very good, I’ll add this to the Mapping Botswana guide for example!
Comment from Richard on 7 May 2014 at 17:36
Brilliant!
Comment from maning on 8 May 2014 at 03:03
Fixed!
Comment from HannesHH on 9 May 2014 at 14:12
Great idea!
Comment from DaCor on 14 May 2014 at 17:16
This is excellent!
Comment from Stalfur on 17 May 2014 at 13:38
Tried this for the first time, not seeing any note. https://twitter.com/jbjensson/status/467372597605588992
Comment from sashazykov on 17 May 2014 at 13:59
Because the tweet is not geotagged. There are several non-geotagged tweets in logs. @osmthis needs to answer with an error message to these tweets, but this feature is not ready yet.
Received a non-geotagged tweet: https://twitter.com/osm_seattle/status/465578050831151104 Received a non-geotagged tweet: https://twitter.com/sashazykov/status/466030016766021632 Received a non-geotagged tweet: https://twitter.com/cq94/status/466516754278404096 Received a non-geotagged tweet: https://twitter.com/ParvillersH/status/466518973006499840 Received a non-geotagged tweet: https://twitter.com/liotier/status/466907488571645952 Received a non-geotagged tweet: https://twitter.com/Repugeek/status/466949831618207745 Received a non-geotagged tweet: https://twitter.com/ThomasG77/status/467031763030917121 Received a non-geotagged tweet: https://twitter.com/Romain_MEHUT/status/467273068679659521 Received a non-geotagged tweet: https://twitter.com/rjachnie/status/467273440454770689 Received a non-geotagged tweet: https://twitter.com/jbjensson/status/467372597605588992
Comment from Stalfur on 18 May 2014 at 00:07
I see, thought the geo-tagging could be read from image, my mistake :)
Comment from Rps333 on 20 May 2014 at 21:50
Sounds great. But just tried it, what am I doing wrong. I’m @rps333 on Twitter. Cheers.
Comment from sashazykov on 21 May 2014 at 01:14
Rps333: Your tweets are protected. Probably, it will be enough if you follow @osmthis, though I am not sure. We also need to allow sending tweets using direct messages. I will add this to todo list.
Comment from Stephan-Hartl on 27 May 2014 at 11:08
Hi,
I just found this site and it sounds great to me. I agree, sending tweets using DMs is neccessary and in my view should be a high priority. I for myself would use twitter to add information to osm notes, but I don’t want to bother my followers with these tweets. Can you give an estimate, when this possibility will be available?
Cheers, Nuffy
Comment from sashazykov on 27 May 2014 at 16:58
Nuffy, you don’t need to bother your followers. If a tweet begins with “@osmthis” only those friends who follow both you and @osmthis will see it.
Comment from Stephan-Hartl on 1 June 2014 at 10:13
I’m feeling old … I’m using Twitter now for about a year, but didn’t know that … Thanks for the information.
Nuffy
Comment from 5m4u9 on 4 April 2015 at 01:28
still works? I sent some tweets and does not create notes
Comment from sashazykov on 4 April 2015 at 03:50
The server was down and I hadn’t noticed it. It should be working now. Sorry for troubles.