GeoNotes
A simple and lightweight app to create and manage georeferenced notes (text and photos) on a map. The goal is to create the notes as fast as possible without any unnecessary UI/UX overhead.
Download
GeoNotes runs on Android 4.1 (SDK 16) and newer. There's an F-Droid version only (no version at the Google Play store yet).
Need help?
See the OSM Wiki page for detailed descriptions about all the features.
Features
- Create, move and delete notes
- Attach photos to note
- List of all notes
- Organize your notes with categories
- Export all notes in GeoJson or GPX format
- Show and follow current location
Contribute to this project
You want to contribute to GeoNotes? Great! Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md file for further information.
Use-case and Philosophy
Basic idea of this app
Take notes as fast as possible while being outside (maybe even while walking or sitting in a bus) and later add the data to e.g. OSM.
Usability principles
To implement the above goal/idea, the app follows some basic principles:
- Simplicity: Make creating, editing, moving and deleting of notes as fast/easy as possible.
- No upload of data and no creation of notes on osm.org.
- General purpose: No restriction in the content of a note.
- Not a note management tool: No import, no high level management operations.
- Simple and pragmatic UI: No unnecessary animations, no overloaded UIs.
- Feature toggles: The possibility to enable/disable features.
Features which will probably not be added to GeoNotes
- Offline maps (too much work for now)
- Creating notes on osm.org
- Uploading data directly to OSM (there are other apps to do that)
- All sorts of features that will only be used by just a few users but require a lot of work to be implemented
- iOS and other non-android support
Try other apps like StreetComplete if you want to interact with OSM-data and osm.org notes directly.