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https://streetcomplete.app - basic task-based, on-the-ground, app for Android

https://every-door.app - intermediate on-the-ground app for smartphones

https://rapideditor.org - AI-assisted mapping in browser

https://www.hotosm.org - task-based mapping in browser

https://josm.openstreetmap.de - advanced editor for desktop (this post)

https://www.comaps.app - actually use the map with ability to make minor changes

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I wish Streetcomplete had an ios app. The ios editors are all far too cluttered and hard to use on mobile. I've almost been considering making my own editor like streetcomplete but as a web app so it's cross platform.

There's progress being made on an iOS app for StreetComplete.

https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421

Oh that's awesome, Looks like I'll just wait and see then.

iOS has Go Map! Which from my understanding is a very powerful mobile editor.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map!!

The problem is "very powerful" is the opposite of what I want in a mobile editor. I've tried some of the existing options but they are just not ergonomic to use. I want to fill in missing details with an easy to use spacious UI, not have a fully functional GIS mapping tool squished on to a phone screen while I'm standing on a busy street with sun glare on the screen.

Street complete has that perfected.

https://every-door.app/ is very usable for quick edits, Go Map!! has a steeper learning curve.

Are you aware of https://mapcomplete.org/ ? Web-based and thematically focused.

One of the great things about StreetComplete is that it works perfectly offline.

Working on it! There's a mostly functioning but somewhat buggy slop "probe" branch: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/pull/7068 we used to discover the remaining blockers, and I've been clearing those blockers in my MapLibre Compose library while working through a non-slop port of the map in https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/pull/7088

I made a few dozen contributions from my iPhone while out on a walk last week.

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