> the government has publicly available information about it
On what license? In which format? What is the quality of this data?
OSM community is not very import happy, for some quite good reasons.
And "publicly available" does not mean "on a compatible license". OSM was started because Ordnance Survey refused to make its data available under sane license.
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In meantime StreetComplete android app allows to relatively easily collect some of that - height limits under bridges, weight limits on bridges (disclaimer: I contributed to this app)
If I could suggest one feature: if the app see I am in a new location and I do not move much (read it: I am not driving my car), it could show me android notification asking if I want to answer for some questions about this place.
I love StreetComplete but as this is not an app you open everyday it is easy to forget about it for a few days and recall it only when you are back at home - where you already answered all the questions about every item around you. And you feel sorry you did some bicycle trip yesterday but forgot about contributing to OSM.
I though about it some time ago - and main problem here is that StreetComplete would need to sit in background and keep downloading/processing data what is quite battery and CPU heavy.
Right now I see no good way to implement this. But maybe it should just query data in a very narrow area, like 20m?
Have you disabled many quests? Or maybe you are in rural area with lower number of objects? In cities you tend to have endless supply of objects to tag and quests to answer.
On what license? In which format? What is the quality of this data?
OSM community is not very import happy, for some quite good reasons.
And "publicly available" does not mean "on a compatible license". OSM was started because Ordnance Survey refused to make its data available under sane license.
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In meantime StreetComplete android app allows to relatively easily collect some of that - height limits under bridges, weight limits on bridges (disclaimer: I contributed to this app)