Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap • Hacker News Board

Re: Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

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Post by habi » Sun, Sep 13, 2026, 8:53 AM UTC

Gigachad wrote: post #82

nobody42 wrote: post #68

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

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.

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

Re: Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

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Post by Loic » Sun, Sep 13, 2026, 8:58 AM UTC

wingmanjd wrote: post #77

celsoazevedo wrote: post #36

This seems to be a very powerful way to contribute to OpenStreetMap, but I'm not sure if it's the right option for a new user. I have over 2k contributions and most are from the Every Door app ( https://every-door.app/ ) on my phone. If adding new data is too "scary", then maybe use StreetComplete ( https://streetcomplete.app/ ) which essentially asks questions about missing or existing old data. I've added buildings…

I've taken StreetComplete with me on walks around my neighborhood and on a few vacations. It was really easy to submit data for missing items.

I did my first contributions last week with it. Really easy and the UI is simple and nice.

Re: Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

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Post by swiftcoder » Sun, Sep 13, 2026, 9:11 AM UTC

I've made a bunch of edits just through the website, because my rural village was not very accurately reflected on OSM. I've added all the missing footpaths, fixed a couple of intersections, and added building footprints for all the houses.

I'm not sure anyone but me cares, since most people use Google maps. But it's satisfying to have accurate maps for myself at any rate.

Re: Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

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Post by DeepDyno » Sun, Sep 13, 2026, 9:45 AM UTC

raybb wrote: post #87

senbrow wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI LLMs are also very good at maintaining a fork ;)

Do you have any examples of forks maintained by LLMs and how they do it?

I keep my neovim config maintained by a LLM which is a fork of Kickstart.

My example might be an outlier on the easy side because they have a custom/plugins directory that will not have merge conflicts ever so I try to never modify the main init.lua and keep all of my changes separate in my own files. This prevents merge conflicts.

I can then ask my LLM to add a plugin or customize existing plugins by writing files in this separate directory to add/overwrite plugins and configurations. This works great for me.

If I were working in the main file creating merge conflicts, I could imagine it could get messy fast.