ID/Community Chats/2026

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Community Chat 7th January 16:00 – 17:00 (UTC)

https://osmcal.org/event/4279/

Attendees

• Martin
• Gregory
• Tobias
• Pierre-Leo

Notes

• iD's NPM package
  • Who can release? A: @openstreetmap orga -> reach out to owner of the npm/@openstreetmap orga to get Minh also included as a secondary person
• open PRs from contributors
  • preset shortcuts PR -> how can we collaborate best on that new feature?
  • generally: a step by step roll out approach might make sense: e.g. minimal viable product first, then adapt to more and more features over time
• education tag (see discussion on community thread)
  • will be fixed in upcoming version of the tagging schema
  • schema could/should separate addTags from suggestTags in future version
• outline for iD development in the upcoming months
  • short term goals
    • get almost done PRs finished. e.g. lifecycle tagging, preferences synchronization, rectilinear shapes "building" tool
    • preset favourites / "shortcuts" (see above)
  • mid term
    • aerial imagery -> more than one custom layer, integration of openaerialmap (and maybe other STAC or WMS/WMTS based sources)
    • custom styling of OSM data, to make enhancing specific OSM data more easily possible; (similarly: maybe also custom styling of custom data overlays)
    • more settings in general to customize the behaviour and appearance of iD, e.g. custom keyboard shortcuts
    • more powerful Notes integration (e.g. filtering by date and user; search functionality, etc.)
  • longer term
    • make keeping the map up to date easier
    • direct user to user interaction in the editor (e.g. GeoChat, or a way to see nearby mapper's changes "pop up" live)
• idea: possibility to share settings between editor
  • through standardized entries in the preferences endpoint of the OSM API
  • 255 character limit of preferences API call is a bit limiting