iD editor
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Feb 26, 2026first mention
Sep 13, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“the web based iD editor [1] is much easier to learn and will hold your hand a lot more.”
“much less friendly to new contributors than the web-based iD editor”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap 3 mentions
- CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps 1 mention
- OsmAnd's Faster Offline Navigation 1 mention
Also written as iD editor. Data: id-editor.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
Be very careful with "automated edits". We have a bit of a collective trauma and doing it completely right takes a ton of work. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines
“I used the web editor recently to add a street and path and to fix some names.”
“the web based iD editor [1] is much easier to learn and will hold your hand a lot more.”
“much less friendly to new contributors than the web-based iD editor”
“Web: https://ideditor.com/”