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better-osm-org a year later

Posted by TrickyFoxy on 31 January 2026 in English. Last updated on 1 February 2026.

Exactly a year ago I summed up the results in diary of my work on the script, it’s time to do it again.

You can view existing features of the script and install it on GitHub (⭐️ welcome :) or in the OSM Wiki

πŸ›° Custom map layers

Can be configured in the right side menu or by pressing shift + S.

Satellite images are finally working in Chrome.

It is now possible to customise not only backgrounds, but also vector styles shift + V (but there is a caveat for Chrome users )

How about the style from StreetComplete?

πŸ” Notes filters

Filter by words and author:

By status and date By comments

Now there are more links in Edit.

Of course, you can customise them.

The syntax is inherited from OSM Smart Menu

And on Android, there is now a button to open this menu in the header. And by default, links to Vespucci, Organic Maps, Osmand:

Links to PTNA and OSM Relatify for public transport relations:

3D renders on building pages:

πŸ“ Ruler

Available by right-clicking

πŸ“ Copying coordinates

Also, either in the context menu

Or on the object pages

Or by pressing alt + C for the centre of the map

πŸ‘£ Search for GPX tracks

Now you can find tracks uploaded in the current map view.

πŸ” Simple search using Overpass

Press shift + / (or shift + `)

You can even edit downloaded objects

✏️ Editing the map

In the context menu, you can move POIs.

When creating a note, you can add a POI immediately.

There is also a button to delete some unimportant relations (i.e. not for borders or having wikidata=*)

πŸͺͺ Improved user profiles and search for deleted users

Changesets on the heat map can be filtered by editor

If the vandal deleted their profile, it won’t save them now.

🩻 Viewing relation members and way nodes on hover

🏺 OpenHistoricalMap β

Not all the features are working, but the main ones seem to be working fine:

⛔️ Render restrictions on turns

🎨 Colour palette for colour blind people

Enable in script settings

🏒 Showing organized cartographers

πŸ™ Highlight changesets with review_requested=yes

🏷 OSMCha review tags

You can add tags by right-clicking on a dislike.

πŸ—³ Counting votes in wiki

I’m tired of watching the voting process on the wiki and counting the votes manually, so now the script is trying to show the intermediate voting results.

πŸ“· Uploading photos to Panoramax Ξ²

It is necessary to enable feature in the script settings.

For example, on the tag values page

πŸ”™ Partial reverts

By pressing R you can choose which objects to revert via osm-revert

Or not revert, but press J to open their JOSM (or alt + J for Level0)

πŸ€ͺ JOSM in browser (again)

The ID is no longer needed (: https://github.com/deevroman/web-josm


Script Repository ⭐️

https://github.com/deevroman/better-osm-org

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Discussion

Comment from dknelson9876 on 1 February 2026 at 02:42

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, your work on this script is the only reason I have motivation to review changesets in my area. Thank you!

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