Adding a places rating system

[FinixFighter]

🚀 Rating/review system for places

Description

Users will be able to review a place by giving it a vote and a comment. They could also be able to add a photo.

Describe the solution you'd like

http://openplacereviews.org/ could do the job.
(using multiple services other than openplacereviews could be used, but this would increase complexity)

[vshcherb]

True, we have already integrated place images (upload / display) and going to continue

[dyamon]

https://lib.reviews/ is also a cool project that might be worth looking into. It already has a basic support for reviewing OSM nodes.

[FinixFighter]

https://lib.reviews/ is also a cool project that might be worth looking into. It already has a basic support for reviewing OSM nodes.

Displaying reviews from both https://lib.reviews/ and http://openplacereviews.org/ would be great.

[vshcherb]

lib.reviews is very generic project, while openplacereviews is inmature but it starts solving main problem connecting OpenStreetMap ID with Permanent ID. Right now OpenPlaceReviews manages only Images associated with Permanent ID but once it becomes more stable and gets tools ready it will have Reviews as well.
While other Open Review projects don't have any connection with OSM id, so it's not possible to use them directly.

[dyamon]

I'm not sure I understand your reasoning here.

lib.reviews is very generic project

this is a non-problem. AFAIK they are generic so that they can potentially be adopted by a lot of different projects with different usecases. It is generic on their side and it won't be on OsmAnd side (I don't expect to be able to review or see reviews of books from OsmAnd, for example).

solving main problem connecting OpenStreetMap ID with Permanent ID

I don't think I'm completely up to date with this issue, but I think they are planning for an tighter integration with OSM anyway. At the moment they are using node/way URLs, but if that is the standard way to refer to an object in OSM, this will probably end up being the solution adopted by lib.reviews as well.

Still I understand that support for multiple services comes with more work and maintenance.

[dyamon]

@d4f5409d AFAIK there is no way to review POIs (with written reviews or, let's say, 1-5 star rating).

What you can do is to submit pictures for some POIs (mainly commercial activities like hotels, restaurants, pubs, bars) through OpenPlaceReviews, because that's what that project implemented so far.

[d4f5409d]

Cool! Well, I'm waiting for it. Then OSMAnd would be a real Google Maps competitor!

[pqhf5kd]

Is the OpenPlaceReciews plug-in on iOS?

[vshcherb]

OpenPlaceReciews plug-in on iOS - it is not complete yet, it doesn't allow to upload images

[vshcherb]

OpenPlaceReciews plug-in on iOS - it is not complete yet, it doesn't allow to upload images

[Thatoo]

On Osmand 3.9.10, android 10, I can see the OpenPlaceReview plugin, I can enable it and I can login to my account in its own settings and then... I can't find how to use it. In map's settings, I don't see anything... Nothing appear on the map... I guess I'm missing a step. Any guidance would be appreciated.

[amenk]

Open a POI of a supported type (such as restaurant or hotel), scroll down to images, you can submit a photo to openplacereviews.

Actual reviews are AFAIK not yet supported.

[scaidermern]

Since OpenPlaceReviews is pretty dead how about adding support for Open Reviews instead?

Quoting from their website:

Building an Open Data Ecosystem for reviews of places, companies, books, websites and more.

[...]
Open Data Ecosystem for Reviews, with the following guiding principles in mind:

 * Anyone can read and write reviews without censorship or monetary restrictions.
 * Anyone is free to develop different algorithms (including no algorithm) that help them make sense of the reviews. This includes both non-profit and for-profit purposes.
 * Anyone can develop applications which leverage the generic infrastructure while being well suited to the needs of their community.

The reviews infrastructure and dataset is hosted and maintained by a non-profit organisation.

Looks like MapComplete already has support for Open Reviews.

[amenk]

Adding open reviews aka mangrove would be awesome

[vshcherb]

@scaidermern Open Reviews looks pretty dead as well, there are not enough reviews for Places I think.
Openplacereviews serves extra purpose by providing Unique ID for Places that joints old/new OSM ids. So rating/review system could be only implemented if there is enough users to write reviews, so far I don't see any open initiative to succeed.

[scaidermern]

@scaidermern Open Reviews looks pretty dead as well, there are not enough reviews for Places I think.

Maybe that's because most apps don't support Open Reviews yet? Not sure.

Too few reviews is a typical chicken-and-egg problem.

[keorn]

Open Reviews has been recently integrated with MapComplete thanks to @pietervdvn . While adoption is pretty slow, the API works and its not dead.

We have funding available, if maintainers are fine with it and if anyone is interested in adding this integration (or any other work related to open reviews). You can email me at hello@open-reviews.net to discuss.

[pietervdvn]

I have Mangeove.reviews integrated - not open-reviews.net

Edit: MapComplete indeed has an integration with Mangrove.reviews

[keorn]

Right, sorry if there is some confusion in branding. mangrove.reviews is just a particular technology supported by Open Reviews Association - open-reviews.net. Same thing. I should have stuck to Mangrove Reviews name.

[pietervdvn]

Oh, should have known by your username ;)

I eyeballed this, as OpenPlaceReviews and openReviews is a bit too similar... an I associate OsmAnd with the former.

[hermann-san]

Is a developer here who would like to develop a OSMand plug-in for Mangrove.reviews?
There is funding available to do so.

[delavei]

Is a developer here who would like to develop a OSMand plug-in for Mangrove.reviews? There is funding available to do so.

Hello, has anybody started working on this? I am thinking of starting, but I don't have too much free time, so if I would be able to do so partially instead of my regular job, it would certainly help. Who can I talk to more about this?

[hermann-san]

I don't know what's the current state with the plugin, but you may also want to check with https://open-reviews.net/about/

[keorn]

@delavei reached out via email, let's see if we can figure something out! We should make sure to align any works with maintainers here.

[derkrasseleo]

Any updates on this? I think open-reviews.net (aka mangrove.reviews) and lib.reviews both seem possible to integrate into Osmand.

[keorn]

I had a chat with @delavei back then and offered a grant for the work, but he did not get back (I am guessing other things got in the way). Anyone interested still very welcome to get in touch!

[delavei]

Hello, I apologize, I found myself in quite a busy period because of work and personal projects and I won't be able to develop this plugin. Maybe if things clear out later in the year, I definitely have this in the back of my memory.