OSM needs some form of gamification adding to it.

Google Maps app is great, lets you gain points by adding information & photos & reviews etc. They even send you a free bespoke pair of socks or a badge if you're active enough. So fun to add photos and then see how many views they get (I posted one of a chippy in Scotland (for Americans that's Fish & Chip 'Thick French Fries' shop) which got over 1.4 million views - mental). The location history feature suggests things to contribute which helps too.

Would be good to have something similar to make contributing fun.

pwg

> OSM needs some form of gamification adding to it.

Take a look at StreetComplete [1]. It is gamification of updates to OSM.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplet...

Grimburger

The last time I submitted a few months worth of my travels at once after doing a hundred or so of these challenges/questions and got a bunch of notifications lambasting me for not updating the moment I did instead of later. Honestly didn't realise you had to manually submit, thought it just happened automatically.

Was a really rude intro to the community and reminded me a lot of SO or Wikipedia with its gatekeeping.

I've never submitted a single thing since then. If that's how you treat newcomers then I want nothing to do with you.

yaomtc

It does happen automatically, pretty sure it's always worked that way. Maybe you experienced a bug?

> The user's answer is automatically processed and uploaded directly into the OSM database.

https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/

Of course uploading a few months of changes all at once is going to cause issues, naturally some will conflict with other changes that have been made in the meantime.