I just started "playing" Street Complete and noticed there was no way to add stuff like new bemches amd trash cans to the map. I found the "create note" feature and started using that for this purpose.
Before I continue like thisI just wamted to check with you guys and see; Am I doing this right?
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Hannes%20Knutsson/notes
I made some note about a new trash can, some new bench and some new stairs.
Yes, this is one way. But you can use StreetComplete's overlay feature (since release https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/releases/tag/v57.0) to directly add benches and trash cans. This helps in avoiding to flood the note system with very small map features. When the overlay feature was not implemented i also added a lot of notes for benches/bins, but got a lot attention of other mappers because of this. So i switched to using OSMTracker to take notes. But now, i am a very happy user of the new things overlay.
Adding stairs is also possible, but a bit more complicated, so adding a note is fine.
Do you know this overlay feature already? This is definitely worth to check out.
No, I thought the overlays were just sets of different types of quests I could use depending on what I wanted to work on.
Thanks for pointing this out!
You can also add those (and many more) with https://mapcomplete.org . This is a different app (or rather) a website, which was inspired by streetcomplete
