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I tried both StreetComplete and EveryDoor on my Android for a while.

I prefer EveryDoor. It's oriented more towards stores and things I'm interested in on the map.

EveryDoor exist on the Apple store too.

Every Door has a very confusing UI (lots of unlabeled buttons with unclear icons), unfortunately. I would love to use it, but even the web-based iD editor is so much easier to figure out!

I agree and I've been thinking about making something similar to Every Door but that takes advantage of AI to let you snap a photo or just send a voice note and then have the appropriate tags generated for review based on some very strict schemas. Would something like that be of interest to you?

Also open to feedback from anyone.

Sounds like hosted AI inference would be involved! Who's paying?

Me!

I was thinking it would be ideal to have something that lets you walk down a street holding your phone out, capture a series of images and then process that in to changes you approve manually at home. Could even be processed locally on a computer after the fact.

Being able to process it later on the computer would definitely be great! That's kinda what I already do via notes but it's fairly painful to match up the photos I took to the notes and times.

I'll certainly keep this in mind though.

The Street Complete UI is just perfect for mobile. If I'm walking down the street with a phone, I don't want to edit polygons or accidentally move a road. I just want to fill in missing data on existing mapped points.

You can choose the type of questions you want to get asked about in StreetComplete. If you want to only enter store names and timings, then go into Settings and pick those.

Have you tried out the Things or Places overlay? Second button from the right at the top, looks like a cake.

StreetComplete, as indicated by it's name, is about street data. Both are for contributing to OSM, but they are for different parts of OSM

StreetComplete asks about things other than street data as well. For example, I get queries about operating hours of businesses.

The name probably just references the street in OpenStreetMap (OSM) as StreetComplete doesn't only collect street data as the sibling comment already noted.

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