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How is this different from StreetComplete, which is on F-Droid, and seems to be the same thing, but for everything instead of just “POIs and entrances”?

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Every Door and StreetComplete seem to do different things, with a bit of overlap.

StreetComplete works by asking you for more details about certain things that are already on the map. It seems like Every Door doesn't ask you specific questions but lets you add any details you like, and also add new points to the map, which StreetComplete doesn't let you do.

StreetComplete is meant to be usable by a complete novice. Every Door looks like it's for mappers who already have a bit of an idea of what's going on and want more control over what they can add to the map.

StreetComplete has actually been adding a new feature called “overlays” recently, which let you switch the map to a special mode for editing a certain class of features. The upcoming version 48 has an overlay for shops and street addresses, which might cover much of what Every Door is aiming at: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/releases

I'd say that is closer to what Maps.Me / Organic Maps do than to Every Door. The latter has a huge focus on updating amenity attributes, which involves doing away with the interactive map for the main UI element. In a shopping mall, for example, StreetComplete's view would be cluttered and mostly unusable, while Every Door is perfectly fine for adding or confirming every shop.

> StreetComplete is meant to be usable by a complete novice. Every Door looks like it's for mappers who already have a bit of an idea of what's going on and want more control over what they can add to the map.

I just discovered this app today; that's my understanding as well. It's also easier to all kind of nodes; with StreetComplete we're limited to add shops with the dedicated overlay.

Also, compared to my previous editor of choice to add nodes (OSM Go!), it seems to offer a better source of background imagery. I can actually my local government imagery source (swisstopo) instead of mapbox.

Note also that Every Door is relatively new, so they're still working on adding it to F-Droid: https://github.com/Zverik/every_door/issues/167

It's been submitted though: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/11955

I appreciate the effort and willingness of the dev to publish to F-Droid. All of my OSM editing is done via apps on F-Droid.

It runs on iOS, too.

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