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The link to google groups is dead on the help page, but this one seems to be the right one.

Also noticed the talk page on openstreetmaps has some useful information, and seems like openstreetmaps.org is an increasingly useful resource for OsmAnd info but there is no link on the help page.

https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https://osmand.net/rss.xml

Main Issues:

• All posts must have a unique ID. It can be the post URL.
• Missing self link: https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/warning/MissingAtomSelfLink.html
• The HTML in the description must be escaped with CDATA. https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/encodingDescriptions.html#example2EncodingHtmlWithinACdataSection
• Some dates are incorrectly formatted.

The feed URL should also be added to the blog HTML. Here:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="OsmAnd Blog" href="/rss.xml">

I could open a PR for this changes, but how do new blog posts are created?

I spotted two things that could be improved during the registration process.

The OsmAnd Live registration form does not seem to accept all types of BTC addresses. Probably related to SegWit?! Instead of showing a message like "Please validate bitcoin address", it would be nice to either accept also other types of addresses or explain in the message that this format is not supported.

Additionally, when unregistering (following the advice "to delete account - enter empty BTC address") the confirmation message "You successfully registered as a recipient." is shown. Would be better to show something like "You successfully unregistered as a recipient." or "You successfully deleted your OsmAnd Live account."

I'm not sure it's the proper place to address that issue, but I believe that the current rank formula for recipients reward (eg., the more changesets, the better rank) chould be improved:

When you look up first contributors on https://osmand.net/osm_live (sorted by OSM changes), the first ones are simply doing one changeset per node modified (adding tree one by one…).
In the mean time, someone that is importing 100K objects at once (buildings for instance) will do a single changeset. You don't want to have 100K changesets.

In my opinion, these extremes changeset (1K changesets of one node and 10K nodes modified at once) should be both valuated equally. But I believe it should also be equivalent to medium changesets (for instance 10 changesets of 10 modified objects). Maybe these "top contributors" will optimize their rank based on the new formula, but at least it would not encourage people to do lots of small changesets.

What is this https://www.osmand.de/ website? Is it an outdated website? Some rip-off? Spam?

When searching for Osmand it is unfortunately the first result, and it is clerarly about the app:

Hi, can you please add a report that simply display ranking for 1 only user ?

Parameters will be :

1. user='the_user_name' (mandatory)
2. date='YYYY-MM (default value = current date)
3. region='the_region_name' (default value = worldwide)

I don't care about adding a page in the website for this report. I just want to call this report from an Android application or something else.

Thanks a lot !

This section of your technical articles page appears to be missing. Clicking the link Map Generation Process doesn't bring the user anywhere.

Hi!
I'm currently in the process of setting up Planet F-Droid, which will be a feed aggregator focussed on free software, especially android development. See the wiki for more information.

Right now I'm populating the site with feeds.
I'd like to ask, whether it is okay for you, if I'd include the OsmAnd blog in the planet. The site is updated every hour to fetch new blog articles, which are then combined into a single feed.

Greetings,
Paul

I think there's a mistake on the http://osmand.net/build_it page.

In the paragraph that describes "penalty_transition" is this: For example, motorway - 10, trunk - 15, if user goes from trunk to motorway penalty will be 5 seconds (=15 - 10). This penalty will be used by A* algorithm. There is no penalty if user goes from trunk to motorway and there is no penalty if route continues from motorway to motorway.

I'm pretty sure that the first "trunk to motorway" should actually be "motorway to trunk," should it not?

osmand.net and www.osmand.net exist as duplicate sites, neither redirects to the other. This causes

on https://osmand.net/osm_live and a failure to load the data. Suggested easy fix: change the server configuration to redirect (probably with 301 Moved Permanently) all requests for osmand.net to www.osmand.net.

Looking at the technical documentation, I cannot find mention of making a custom poi_types.xml and where to put it. I managed to find the answer (put in folder named 'settings') but would be nice to have it easier to find just like making a custom rendering.

FYI

-mapilary
+mapillary

With PR #15, I fixed some typo Open Street Map > OpenStreetMap and now the typo is here again:

• https://github.com/osmandapp/osmandapp.github.io/blob/master/website/blocks/footer.html#L31
• https://github.com/osmandapp/osmandapp.github.io/pull/15/files#diff-ca01ee22b3b4def8e3076c060ce15843L39

Any idea why? I cannot found the guilty commit in history https://github.com/osmandapp/osmandapp.github.io/commits/master/website/blocks/footer.html

The page that allows people to sign up to be OSM live recipients (http://osmand.net/osm_live) asks for OSM user name and password and then transmits it in an unencrypted HTTP post back to osmand.net servers.

This is completely unacceptable.

At the very least the form post should be happening via HTTPS. I can't even use HTTPS if I try because the certificate is self-signed and the SSL virtual host is not configured so all I get is a 404 anyway.

However the real solution is to use OAuth and not ask for peoples passwords at all.

I tried to send the files that translate to Portuguese but it did not work.

Please provide an RSS feed for blog posts :)

In Osmand 3.3 you write:

We follow our Privacy Policy and now we have completely removed Facebook and Firebase analytics from the free version (OsmAnd+ didn't include it).

https://osmand.net/blog/osmand-3-3-released

On the same page, i am greeted with annoying banners and big things prompting me to use Google Translator to translate your website. This is unreasonable!

Thus, please remove Google Translator.
If I want to translate your website with whatever service I want, I choose so. (or my browser even offers it) I thus do not need tracking by Google Translator.

Trying to sign up it fails with a 401 error, apparently proxied from the OSM servers as the osmand.net server responds with a 200 OK.

Credentials are correct as verified by logging in to OSM in a private window.

Only issues that I could see regarding my account are:

1. I changed my nick, since it originally contained a space character, and I assumed that might be an issue
2. My password is overly long at 128 characters, including special chars

Hi,

I just tried to register with a ~64 character password, and it failed. I then changed my password on OSM to ~16 characters, and when I tried to register again it worked. I've since generated a new password.

I'm not sure where the threshold is here, but it seems to me that this is a bug.

Add translations on translation project page

Hello.
On the left side of the page:
Open Street Maps -> Open Street Map

I think https://osmand.net/features/online-maps-plugin#Prepare_raster_maps should updated. Although the Maps Creator Tool is interesting for doing the work with a computer, .sqlitedb maps can be (now) generated with OsmAnd.
Just edit the online source selecting SQLiteDB file at Storage format. After that, use the Download method explained at https://osmand.net/features/online-maps-plugin#How_to_use_A The download will update your .sqlitedb map. After that, If you want, you can make a backup of the .sqlitedb to your computer. The main difference are that you will not have the tiles in metainfo format (on file for each tile). Maps Creator Tool downloads the tiles in metainfo format and after that you tells him to create the .sqlitedb file.

Since all contributors that did not do any changes this month are ranked at level 0, then at level 20, then 19 .. to finish at level 1 for biggest contributors, it's impossible to see the biggest contributors easily on the website.

Could it be possible that either:

• users who did not contribute yet have no rank assigned to or
• users who did not contribute have a rank of 21 or anything > than 20? or
• a custom sort is used to sort the rank column to have (rank 1...20 then 0), so that we can see who are the biggest contributors easily?
• ranks are inverted so that people with the biggest rank are the biggest contributors?

At https://osmand.net it is not really clear how to contact the support, e.g. if a user has problems with the app.

• Help for example doesn't list a clear contact channel but two answers contain the mail address [email protected].
• The "Contact Us" button at the bottom of the website points to [email protected] instead.
• The website further lists Facebook, Twitter, GitHub and Google Groups although it is unclear which / if they can be used for support.
• There is also a Telegram group not mentioned on the website.

It should be made more clear which are official support channels and which are unofficial community-based support channels. Maybe add a FAQ entry or a separate support page on https://osmand.net.