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.
GeoNotes runs on Android 7.0 (SDK 24) and newer. There's an F-Droid version only, there is no version at the Google Play store.
See the OSM Wiki page for detailed descriptions about all the features.
- Create, move and delete notes
- Attach photos to note
- List of all notes
- Organize your notes with categories
- Show and follow current location
- Export all notes in GeoJson or GPX format
- Create and restore full backups
You want to contribute to GeoNotes? Great! Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md file for further information.
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.
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.
- Offline maps (too much work for now)
- Creating notes on osm.org
- Uploading data directly to OSM (see below for apps doing 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 or OsmAnd if you want to interact with OSM-data and osm.org notes directly.