better-osm-org

Userscript adding several improvements for experienced osm.org users

1. Install Violentmonkey (FOSS, but only in Firefox) or Tampermonkey (proprietary)
2. Install script

Also works in Firefox for Android

Tags diff in object history

QuickLook for simple changesets

Improved history tab

• Changesets filters
• Show users roles and status
• Show first comment

Node deletion

Satellite layer

Stat HDYC in profile (Firefox only)

Dark mode for map and iD

Based on OpenStreetMap Dark Theme by AlexPS

Edit war detector

Display photos and traces in notes

Photos are also displayed in the tags panoramax=* and wikimedia_commons=*

Hotkeys

• < > for user changesets
• N — on/off notes layer
• D — on/off Map Data layer
• G — on/off GPS tracks layer
• S — on/off satellite layer (Firefox only)
• H — open object history
• 1 — open first version of object
• Z — zoom to changeset/object bbox
• E — Open editor
• 8/9 — prev/next map position
• O— open OSMCha
• shift + O — open Achavi
• Q — Close sidebar or alert

Experimental hotkeys:

• K L — navigation between changeset elements
• J — open objects from changesets in JOSM
• shift + J — open objects from changesets in Level0
• shift + L — pan to current location
• shift + H — open My changesets
• Y — open Yandex.Panoramas
• shift + E — open second editor
• shift + N — create new note
• C — Open changeset of object version
• shift + Z — pan to real changeset bbox (without relations bboxes)
• 0 — zoom to global view
• ` — hide geometry from map
• T — toggle between compact and full tags diff mode
• U — open user profile
• shift + U — open your profile
• shift + / — search with Overpass
• shift + M — send messega to user
• atl + C — copy map center coordinates

Other

• Changeset revert button

• OSMCha dis/likes

• Display way/relation versions

• Search deleted author of changeset

• Template responses when closing notes/changeset 👌/ 👋

• Add Rapid into Edit menu

• Mass actions with changesets
• • mass revert via osm-revert
• • copy ids for JOSM
• • via remote control JOSM
• • load 300 changeset
• • open multiple changesets on one page
• Highlight fixme=*, note=*
• opening_hours validator
• Render direction=*, type=restriction
• Resizable sidebar
• Settings
• Hide active note highlight
• Click on time for show ISO-time
• Open external links in new tab
• Clickable:
• • ID and names in object header
• • Hashtags in changeset comment
• • Changeset IDs in comments
• • revert:id, redacted_changesets key in changeset
• • panoramax=*, mapillary=* tags
• Display GPS photos and tracks in StreetComplete notes
• Display photos from Panoramax and Wikimedia Commons in tags
• Display GPS-tracks
• Shortening long URLs in comments: https://www.openstreetmap.org → osm.org
• Shortening v:, ideditor: keys in changesets tags and hide host=https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit
• Display number of comments to changesets on the map item page
• Display the user's previous usernames (via OSM User Names Database)
• Bypass OSMF Redactions
• • Show redacted tags
• • Show redacted geometry
• taginfo: new overpass links
• • search relation roles
• • search keys on Key length page
• File viewer via Drag&Drop β
• • geotagged photos
• • .gpx
• • .geojson
• • .osm
• Notes filters:
• • by user
• • by word
• • by status
• Geometry
• • Ruler
• • Calc area size
• • Copy coordinates in multiple formats

Ideas

• in-browser reverter
• Changesets feed like who did it
• Jump to overpass from tags
• Custom links to geo services (like OSM Smart Menu)
• Mark reviewed changesets
• Public transport viewer and validator
• Collapse name tags
• Integrate https://github.com/Zverik/osmtags-editor
• Overpass Turbo (maybe in Overpass beta)
• • Edit tags in Overpass Turbo
• • {{bbox}} on/off in Overpass Turbo
• • remove comment and extra quotes from query
• • fast out meta/center/... switch
• • explain expressions
• • autocompletion from taginfo
• • split window
• • Javascript postfilters
• Tutorial
• Improve data view
• • Hide ways
• • Filters
• • Colors
• Localization
• Improve search
• • Filter by object type
• • Improve default zoom
• • Photon?
• • Overpass (shift + /)
• Custom layers and overlays
• • Strava for iD (Hard, need workaround for overzoom)
  • Any layers on main page
• Show nearest example for map legend
• website & iD helper for translator (open search query into translation platform)
• show in quick look the base way tag
• Fast tags copy from wiki

Maybe

• Support OpenHistoricalMap
• Move object from OSM into OpenHistoricalMap
• Bookmarks on map (like Organic Maps)

Other

• Discussion on forum
• OSM Wiki
• Greasy Fork
• Issues
• Mastodon

Other extensions

• OpenStreetMap Tags Editor
• OpenStreetMap Human-readable Wikidata

Projects that are used directly or indirectly in the script

• Bookmarklet helpers for resolving OSM Notes
• exif-js — to read the coordinates of the photos that you drag using Drag&Drop
• ESRI — Satellite images
• GM_config — settings framework for UserScripts
• LetItSnow — Easter New Year's Egg
• Lucide — for changes count icon on /history page, copy button icon, filter icon and other
• Moresby/Element graphics - OSM object types SVGs
• opening_hours.js — for opening_hours tags validation
• OpenStreetMap Dark Theme — dark theme was the foundation based on this style
• OpenStreetMap Statistics — The script uses the rules from this project to normalize the names of OSM editors and list of the list of organised teams contributors
• OSMBuilding — 3D viewer for buildings
• osmtogeojson — converts OSM data to GeoJSON
• osm-auth — for authentication with OpenStreetMap
• SVG Spinners — for more beautiful spinner when you upload edits in iD in dark mode
• Wikimedia Commons — source for road signs SVGs
• ...

p.s. External libraries are hosted in fork repositories (if possible) controlled by me, and imported with Subresource Integrity