OpenStreetMap
This is a quick count of the various editors used by mappers in 2020. iD is on top with 7.6M edits followed by JOSM with 5.6M. The data was collected by looking at tags->created_by in the changeset database.
| Editor | Count |
|---|---|
| iD | 7636890 |
| JOSM | 5644149 |
| StreetComplete | 414353 |
| MAPS.ME | 160365 |
| Go Map!! | 122639 |
| OsmAnd | 118465 |
| Potlatch | 115427 |
| Vespucci | 100327 |
| Other | 90879 |
| osmapi | 73587 |
| Refill Südtirol | 22612 |
| Services_OpenStreetMap | 16985 |
| Merkaartor | 13137 |
| autoAWS | 11626 |
| All the Things | 10548 |
| caresteouvert.fr | 7930 |
| Go Kaart!! | 7567 |
| FireYak | 6956 |
| OsmHydrant | 6564 |
| MapRoulette | 3206 |
| ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap | 2611 |
| Rosemary | 2067 |
| Gnome Maps | 1437 |
Discussion
Reäksje fan jimkats op 9 novimber 2020 om 01.07 oere
Those are interesting stats. Thanks for sharing the cumulation.
I see JOSM is used as massively as iD.
Reäksje fan SimonPoole op 9 novimber 2020 om 09.51 oere
There are regularly updated statistics on editor usage avaliable here osm.wiki/Editor_usage_stats
It seems as if you are actually using changeset counts and not edits as you claim, this is not only extremely mislieading and distorts actual use of the various apps, changeset counts are simply not a good metric for anything.
Reäksje fan SomeoneElse op 9 novimber 2020 om 13.11 oere
It’d be interesting to link to the sites / editors behind these. I’m surprised to see a local site for one purpose “Refill Südtirol” so high up the list, for example.
Reäksje fan SimonPoole op 9 novimber 2020 om 13.26 oere
@SomeoneElse I was actually prompted to have a quick look at the empty changeset numbers, and they have doubled from the usual ~5’000/month since August and the “Refill Südtirol” app is the major culprit (for the increase, the rest are the usual suspects JOSM, maps.me and id).
Generating a list of user ids as I write.
Reäksje fan SimonPoole op 9 novimber 2020 om 13.33 oere
@SomeoneElse see for example osm.org/user/danielbir with > 6000 empty changesets.
Reäksje fan SimonPoole op 9 novimber 2020 om 13.34 oere
And this is the app https://www.refill.bz.it/?mz=9&mc=46.640008243515915,11.351623535156252 looks harmless, probably just buggy.
Reäksje fan SomeoneElse op 9 novimber 2020 om 15.32 oere
Thanks - we (the DWG) occasionally get complaints about people trying to “game” editing statistics (by e.g. editing the same thing over and over again) but I don’t remember any about empty changesets.