F_OSM

Project Name: F_OSM

(coz FOSS and OSM are awesome!)

Description:

This project aims to enhance CoMaps into a more comprehensive travel and cultural guide, by integrating Wikimedia Commons data, and also enabling a feature for Mangrove Reviews, as also suggested in the FOSSHACK 2026 forum for project statements and ideas. We intend to provide users with visual context and community-driven insights that remain accessible without a persistent network connection.

The main objectives are:

1. Media Synchronization: Bundling high-resolution images, proper information in a short yet concise manner, etc. from Wikimedia for places, alongside the map download phase.

2. Decentralized Feedback: Integration of a database of Mangrove Reviews to offer a private, libre alternative to proprietary rating systems.

3. Data Contribution: Enabling features (if possible in the given time frame, or in the future) such as - Users can capture photos and submit reviews while on the go, which can be synced back to the global open-source community, upon re-connection.

4. Recommendation System: A suggestion on which we or future contributors can work upon, in order to show more relevant results when searching for any particular location, using algorithms working on tags/graphs.

Acknowledgements:

This initiative has been made possible due to the robust metadata infrastructure of OpenStreetMap (OSM) ecosystem and Wikimedia's network of providing information for free. We also give significant credit to Edward Betts for his extensive work on linking Wikidata to OSM, which he has also presented in various other global FOSS summits/events, and providing his work on his GitHub profile. Without all of this, the work of our team on this project, would not have been as impactful. We are also grateful for the experience gained in this hackathon of FOSSHACK 2026.