Today I’m proud to present my new OpenStreetMap editor. It’s called Every Door and works on both iPhones and Androids. I shared the idea last Summer at a State of the Map, but started writing just late October. In the last month and a half thirty people made ten thousand edits with the editor and helped make it much better. Now I’m launching the open testing.

The official website has links to TestFlight and Google Play, a short video, and a FAQ.

I’ve got just one feeling: at long last. One way or another I was suggesting something like that for OSM since 2013. Made a failed attempt with OpenSurveyor. Watched with hope for big company projects with paid developers — but all these have disappeared. In this time we’ve got one amazing StreetComplete, which I like a lot, although it’s not for me.

Every Door is not StreetComplete. It’s not for everybody who’s got a minute to answer a few questions on the phone. This editor is for dedicated mappers. For her who, walking in a mall with hundreds of shops, thinks it’d be awesome to add each one of these to the map. For him who, pushing a stroller, dreams of mapping every sandpit and swing. For “fanatics” ready to add every street lamp, bench, and every tree in a park. This is a proper editor, with which you can forget about photomapping and trace recording.

Install Every Door today and help me make it better. The open testing will commence till late June at least, and in that time we’ll update the interface, polish input fields, add many heuristics inside. And on the way we’ll map hundreds of thousands of shops. Anything to make using the editor fun and exciting, so that our map grows even richer.