I first learned of Street-Complete here and I really like it.

It’s satisfying to walk around, complete little tasks, and get prizes, scratching a similar itch to Pokemon Go.

Stuck waiting for someone? Add opening hours for a few local businesses.

Have a long walk ahead of you? See if you can add/check house addresses as fast as you can walk.

Want to walk off a few beers before heading home? Complete some tasks in the bar street.

Its a very constructive way to “be right” on the internet.

  • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
    67·
    4 months ago

    I don’t like the implication that Pokémon GO was bad when it got a ton of people to go outside and interact with each other. This is cool too though.

    • InsertUser@en.osm.town
      13·
      4 months ago

      @RealFknNito @vatlark @openstreetmap

      It caused a lot of fake stuff to be added to OSM even though its update frequency was slow enough that very little of the fake stuff actually made it into Pokemon Go.

      I think it did bring in a few good mappers too though so it wasn’t all bad.

          • Nicoleism101@lemm.eeEnglish
            5·
            4 months ago

            It was unique time and experience at its peak. People moved on largely and if something as big and addicting as Pokémon couldn’t permanently make it popular then nothing will

            It will come back however in different form as the miniaturisation of VR headsets progresses and whenever it will be cool and comfortable to walk in one

            Walking with eyes glued to phone gets old real quick and can fucking kill you hence no matter how good game is this formula is dead. Many Darwin awards were handed out. My friend received one and another got just a nomination

            • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              4·
              4 months ago

              I know the E word is getting old here but I’ll say that “product degradation” occured for the reasons of increased revenue which was not for consumer benefit