DinoData is a web-based tag editor for OpenStreetMap nodes, ways and relations, designed for phones first. Open an object, see what it is and what each tag means in your language, edit the tags with inputs suited to them, and save as a changeset. Geometry is not edited.

It runs entirely in the browser and is hosted on Wikimedia Toolforge. It started as a Wikidata editor; the OpenStreetMap mode lives next to it in the same app.

Finding an object

Search for a place, or paste what you have: an openstreetmap.org URL (including edit and API URLs), an iD or JOSM remote control link, a short ID like n123 or way 123, or coordinates. Other text is a place search with Photon and Nominatim. “Near me” lists the tagged objects around you via the Overpass API, handy while surveying.

Understanding the tags

• What the object is (“Cafe”), from the translated presets of the iD tagging schema
• Every tag explained from the wiki’s data items: description in your language, status, image, links to the wiki page and the Wikidata concept
• Deprecated and discouraged tags marked
• A small map, the parent ways and relations, and the history: tags added, changed and removed per version, with user and changeset comment

Editing

• Preset fields with matching inputs: chips for yes/no and other choices, a value picker with translated options and the most used values from taginfo, chips for multiple values like cuisine=pizza;pasta, toggles for diet:*, names per language, a search for wikidata=*, and number, phone and URL keyboards
• Issues with one-tap fixes: deprecated tags, values not matching the format documented on the wiki, tags not meant for the element type, incompatible tags
• Undo per field or tag; pending edits survive reloads and the login

For power users, a text view shows all tags as key=value lines or as Level0 text. Paste tags with Ctrl+V anywhere: key=value lines, tab-separated lines, "key"="value" from taginfo or Overpass turbo, or Level0 text as is. key= removes a tag. Copied Level0 text contains the full object, so it can be pasted into Level0.

Saving

Log in with your OpenStreetMap account (OAuth 2.0 in a popup, so pending edits are kept), review the changes, enter a comment and pick a source. Each save is one changeset with created_by=DinoData. If someone edited the object in the meantime, the tags are merged; only keys changed on both sides need a choice.

Limitations

No geometry editing, no creating or deleting objects, no editing of relation members, one object per changeset, no offline editing. The interface of the OpenStreetMap mode is available in English, German and Dutch.

Try it

Open dinodata.toolforge.org/#osm. DinoData is free software under GPL-3.0; the code is on GitHub, and bug reports and ideas are welcome in the issue tracker.