Add Object Directly via URL in iD Editor about id HOT 4 OPEN

You can kinda do this already, but the UX sucks and it only supports a restricted subset of tags (name and 7 other tags).

To use this feature, add &gpx=... to the URL. Here's an example that loads this gpx file.

Since this was too limited for us, we forked the iD/RapiD editor for a very similar use case. You provide a geojson file which specifies the nodes/ways that should be created, edited or deleted. Then iD prompts the user to review each feature in the geojson file. It would be nice if this were built into iD or RapiD one day...

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Currently users need to do things like this

And this keeps us in the realms of pro users, suers that need to know and remember tags, etc.

Instead of allowing us to have simple websites that are focused on specific things (think wheelmap.org / public drinking water places, etc where the user does not care about roads, house nunbers and other things, he wants to know where is the closest place where he can find water, for example,and when he finds a new place, to be able to quickly add it to the map in less than 20 seconds, while also attaching a photo for source if he choose to, lets say

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Hey @baditaflorin thank you for sharing your use case. I don't think this is something to be done in iD, TBH.
There are other tools, however, that will get you quite far.

• You can use MapRoulette to add pre defined data in a user reviewed form (more at https://learn.maproulette.org/en-us/documentation/tag-fix-challenges/)
• You can create a custom MapComplete Theme https://mapcomplete.org/ to provide users with a guided UI for specific mapping Use cases (see "Mapcomplete Studio" for how to create custom themes)
• MapComplete also had a campaign where they used a special format of OSM Notes to be copied to OSM with little user interaction. (See https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Pieter%20Vander%20Vennet/diary/398782 for a starting point to learn more)
• There is talk in the Rapid Repo on how to improve the experience to add pre defined data in a user reviewed form to OSM (See facebook/Rapid#585 (comment) as a starting point)
• The new MapRoulette Integration in Rapid that is just being testet also has the potential to make adding or modifying data possible with very little interaction (Follow facebook/Rapid#1340 for more)

(Context: I am a volunteer that helps with issues in iD)

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Thanks @tordans for the answer, MapComplete looks like it was built before I was alive.

MapRoulette and or the RapidID seems like a god wa going.

Interested also if I would fork the iD editor, around where I should start looking to implement a way to do this

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