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by godelski 1781 days ago
This is cool, but seems pretty limited. It looks open sourced. Is there a way to integrate this data with a smartphone app? A useful added feature I think would be taking a picture of the camera too, allowing people to know exactly where the cameras are. (Could also add IMSI data too?) But I think a smartphone app would really help increase the data collection as it makes it easier to fill in the data.
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As the site explains, this data is recorded in OpenStreetMaps. There are numerous mobile apps available for contributing to OSM from a smartphone[0].

[0]https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software/Mobile

Okay, maybe I wasn't clear enough. If you click the "how" button[0] there's a lot of things to fill in here that are labeled as mandatory, including the camera view. This is cumbersome. It would be nice to be integrated into an app and fill in a lot of this stuff for you. Additionally, I looked at two of the three open sourced OSM apps for Android (via your link) and found that neither of them will display this data nor do they look like you are able to add this data. My comment was saying "make it easy for users to add data if you want to collect data." So I'm not sure how your response answers my question. If there is a specific app with this integration in it, please link the specific app. But don't just leave a generic comment that contributes nothing to the conversation and just wastes peoples time.

[0] https://sunders.uber.space/#how