OpenStreetMap

Direct editable tags in osm

Posted by Aury88 on 6 June 2015 in English.

Today the OSM community can use several tools to add items on the map.

But if you want to just change the tags of a single already mapped item do you really need to load an entire program (like Josm, iD, Potlatch)?

Some days ago I discovered the incredible online tool Level0 that permit to directly add/change/remove tags.

This got me thinking about why there is not an integrated system in osm.org to make such a thing too.

We already can select an element (in the nominatim results list, from data-layer, or by “?” button on the map) and see its tags, but why can not a logged-in user directly edit them?

Actual state: What I mean:

Regards,

Aury88

PS: the last image above is not a mock-up or an ongoing project, I done it only to explain what I mean better than my English.

Discussion

Comment from RobJN on 9 June 2015 at 22:10

Andy Allan spoke about this in his recent talk at State of the Map US.

https://youtu.be/b6yRH5Ics7I?t=14m38s

Comment from Aury88 on 10 June 2015 at 06:34

thank you RobJN.

Comment from Pan on 19 June 2015 at 05:17

Very good idea! I hope it will be implemented.

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