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 7.0 (SDK 24) and newer. There's an F-Droid version only, there is no version at the Google Play store.

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
• Show and follow current location
• Export all notes in GeoJson or GPX format
• Create and restore full backups

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 (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.