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This is genuinely one of the best tools to emerge in the OpenStreetMap ecosystem in recent years. If you've ever tried to onboard a non-technical person to OSM, you know the struggle. The default web editor (iD) can still be overwhelming with its sheer amount of data, and JOSM (the desktop power-user tool) is entirely out of the question for casual contributors. Thanks!

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I'd also strongly endorse its on-the-street mobile app counterpart, StreetComplete. Splitting stuff into tiny tasks you can focus on really helps if you're just out on foot in an area.

Or if you are looking for pretext to walk a bit in area known to you :)

What do you mean by this? Does the app have a way of showing you new things in familiar areas?

I like to have some goal on walk even silly one.

"Solve the quest asking about opening hours of shop I have not spotted before" qualifies for me. Even "check footway surface there" qualifies. At least for me.

This is the app I miss the most switching from android to ios. I so wish there was an ios app of streetcomplete.

It's being worked on!

https://github.com/orgs/streetcomplete/projects/1

You could use Every Door — a bit harder to learn, but more powerful too. MapComplete is a web app, so it should work.

Similarly, `Go Map!!` is an iOS app that makes editing OSM data easy.

Adding missing features is one of my favorite things to do while traveling, and feels like a way of giving back (“take only photos, leave only GIS traces”?)

Could be but needs a serious UI/UX revamp (easy). Maximally remove friction when asking for user contributions. Like literally on the first page it puts adding public clocks, I repeat, PUBLIC CLOCKS (and other such things), on equal footing as adding a restaurant. Like, no.

I've occasionally used the CoMaps OSM editing capability to just get the basics in before doing the big work in JOSM, or more likely the web editor. Now I'll be looking into MapComplete much further.

Thanks for the compliments :)

Yeah, the complexity of the other tools is the pitch of MapComplete

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