Disclaimer: I've edited OSM a bit, but I don't know much about it. I had no idea before this post that iD was unpopular among any group. The OSM database consi

Disclaimer: I've edited OSM a bit, but I don't know much about it. I had no idea before this post that iD was unpopular among any group. The OSM database consists, primarily, of nodes (points) and ways (ordered sets of nodes). On its own, these mean nothing—a way could be a road, a coastline, or the outline of a building. Nodes and ways are described using key=value tags, which give them meaning. Users can input arbitrary tags, but for them to be useful there obviously have to be some sorts of conventions about what tags get used for what. These conventions are captured on the OpenStreetMap wiki. The iD editor is one of several tools for editing OSM, and is the one recommended to new users. Because manually entering key=value pairs isn't particularly user-friendly, iD has some built-in knowledge about what tags mean what, allowing a user to mark a way as, say, a "Parking Aisle" and have iD automatically tag it as highway=service service=parking_aisle. It seems that one of the main complains is that the authors of iD are adopting conventions inconsistent with those used by the community, leading to inconsistent data. There also seem to be some other complaints. iD includes some links to the OSM community, and apparently featured "proprietary" (and, presumably, more usable) platforms such as Slack and Reddit over "open" platforms (IRC, mailing lists). iD also uses logos of some brands (if I mark a building as a McDonalds, the McDonalds logo shows up) and apparently loads these from Twitter and Facebook, leading to privacy concerns.