I’ve been contributing to Google Maps for a while, specifically, I usually upload pictures of menu’s from restaurants, so future visitors can see them before they decide to eat there! I’m trying to degoogle my life a bit & was wondering if there is a way I could contribute these to OSM?
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If the menu is available on a website you can link to it by adding the
website:menutag. These will show on Organic Maps for examplehttps://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key%3Awebsite%3Amenu
See for example this bar that Organic Maps shows the link to the Menu:
Mate Bar https://omaps.app/0ysrTcXR-t/Mate_Bar om://0ysrTcXR-t/Mate_Bar
In my experience website menus aren’t incredibly common, perhaps I could upload the photo and link that though.
That’s really neat! Thanks
I’ve also wondered this. I’d also like to contribute info on how busy places generally are around me, so you know to show up early if you want a table, or don’t bother dining in on a weekend, etc.
Apparently MapComplete integrated mangrove.reviews, and you can upload pictures from MapComplete, so that may be the best option for now?
There’s also https://lib.reviews/ which is Creative Commons licensed. Looks like there’s open issues to integrate that into OSM via a plugin: https://github.com/eloquence/lib.reviews/issues/319
Map complete looks great ~ but there doesn’t seem to be an Android app for it.
You can install it as progressive web app (basically a glorified bookmark on your home page, opening full screen giving an ‘app’-experience).
I might package it as Android app one day, but that is something that’ll take some time (and hopefully funding from NlNet).
For photos, Wikimedia Commons seems like the best approach, although really any website will do (as long as there are no licensing issues w/ that site and OSM). There is a whole wiki page about linking OSM features to photos.
Unsure about reviews, though.
@ApplyingAutomation You can use https://mapcomplete.org/food for this - it has reviews (thanks to @mangroveReviews ) and picture upload
Not specifically for restaurant menus, but more generally if you’d like to contribute to Open Street Map while out and about, depending on your area there may not be complete information for a lot of businesses. You can use an app like Go Map!! on iOS or Street Complete on Android (or many other OSM apps) to add information like business hours, website, phone number, and other useful information.
Every Door is another app for updating hours and contact info for businesses while out and about. It’s available for both iOS and Android.
I already use StreetComplete ;)
