Easy quest ideas

[paulklie]

Hi, I have had quite a few quest ideas that are very similar to existing ones. These can be simply copied from the exising implementation, and only the name and maybe the added tag needs to be modified. Primarily they only need a new icon, so if anyone is feeling creative or better at .svgs than me feel free to take this ideas :)

New quest name	Copy of	Notes
Where is this first aid kit located?	Where is this defibrillator located?
In what direction can you ride this?	Is this a one-way street? In which direction?	aerialway =* except cable_car or zipline
How many bikes/trucks/scooters can be charged here at the same time?	How many cars can be charged here at the same time?
Do you have to pay to park your motorcycle here?	Do you have to pay to park your bike here?

These might require a bit more discussion:

New quest name	Copy of	Notes
Can you enter this cave?	Who is allowed to park a bicycle here? Parking may be free or paid.	sets cave_enterance access=yes/no/private
Does this aerialway transport bikes?	Does this ferry route transport pedestrians?	tags aerialway:bicycle on on cable cars
When does this operate?	What are the opening hours here?	For aerialway, ferries and funiculars.
What kind of lock is this?	What kind of car wash is this?	for locks (boats), tags automated, self service and manual

Also feel free to add your own ideas!

[mnalis]

Makes sense to me; might be good idea for people wanting to try becoming first-time Quest contributors to StreetComplete, as it does not need any Kotlin programming skills, mostly only ability to copy/paste :-)

Also first-time contributors would likely use https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING_A_NEW_QUEST.md to write that Quest, and they are great Source of comments on that document: as they can help improve that document by noting if there were any unclear things there -- we depend on new contributors for that as for existing ones it all makes sense 😸

[matkoniecz]

Can you enter this cave?

note that in some cases you may enter (it is possible) but you can not (as it is forbidden) - and what worse, this info may be unsigned

[paulklie]

Aye, I think this could be solved with a country filter though, I think caves that you are not allowed to access are generally signed in western europe.

[NariaReynhard]

Hey, we're starting to work on this on our side, by the end of the week we expect to be done with the four quests that "do not require a bit more discussions" plus "when does this operate ?"

Since we're five in the group, we would like to do one each alongside it's documentation (in a format ready to be used on the wiki) and our project documentation.

Please keep up posted if there's anything to know about those quests while we're at it.

Futhermore, none of us is a skilled graphic designer, we would like to know for illustration, whatever they are, if there's available stuff to find on the project already ? If we can seek for licensefree images ? If we can just leave placeholder and wait for people with those skills to fill them out (and add an issue for that probably) ? Or if we just "do our best and hope it's not too ugly" ?

Thanks in advance !

[paulklie]

Exciting!
A few pointers:

• Coordinate to ensure your five branches are not using the same quest number in https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/blob/master/app/src/androidMain/kotlin/de/westnordost/streetcomplete/quests/QuestsModule.kt. 179, 180, etc... are free.
• You can submit a draft PR, so I and other users might be able to help with the icon. You can find more information on the icon here: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING_A_NEW_QUEST.md#adding-quest-icon. You can just reuse an existing icon for now.
• For testing, I suggest using overpass turbo to find an matching element, here for example for the first aid quest: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/2bGR, where you can see that these are currently quite rare, so you will probably need some form of gps spoofing to test your new quest.
• For the "How many bikes/trucks/scooters can be charged here at the same time?" I suggest you choose one of the suggested transport modes to develop first, maybe bikes since the filter for this is probably the easiest. This quest will also require an capacity icon, similar to the car charging station: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/c5197dc25d06c9a439912a37cf4e9a93a83addda/res/graphics/charging%20station%20capacity/electric_car.svg, but can probably reuse the existing charging station quest icon.
• For the "When does this operate?" Quest I would leave out ferries for now as these require... special handling: #6373 Ask for ferry relationships and ferry ways not part of a ferry relationship #6375 , as well as funiculars, since they might require a similar implementation, and focus on the aerialways for now.

[paulklie]

Since there have been concerns about the "When does this operate" quest, you could maybe instead have a look at this one: #6502

[danieldegroot2]

Where is this first aid kit located?

See also Is this inside a building? quest.

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Does this aerialway transport bikes?

Partial duplicate of #5315 (and linked threads).

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When does this operate?

#6465 mentions

anything tagged seasonal=yes come to mind as places that are hard to survey.

(sidenote: seasonal other than seasonal=no are excluded from 'Is this still here?')

#5556 (comment) mentions

Times are signposted [...] but they change several times per season [see comment]

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[paulklie]

See also Is this inside a building? quest.

Aye, both defibrillator and first aid kit are included in that quest.

Partial duplicate of #5315 (and linked threads).

Yeah though it seems like that thread mostly discussed elevators and dropped aerialways. I feel like aerialways differ to lifts here because they are generally manned and require a fee, so a visitor might see that an additional ticket price needs to be payed for bikes, thus allowing them to answer the questions. Also since many aerialways explicitly support mountain biking routes signage seems to be more prevalent, but obviously more research would be required.