My previous map editor was... a messenger bot! I made it for finding local shops and businesses, because we had like half a thousand. And OSM didn't have that much, neither it had photos, so I made my own database and my own data collection pipeline — right inside the Telegram messenger! No interactive maps or geolocation, but surveying was fast and enjoyable.
I left Belarus many years ago, so alas it's not updated. But without it, there would be no Every Door.
My focus on ground surveying started basically when I joined OSM. Among my first wiki pages was "Solo Mapping Party": thoroughly documented experience of drawing and filling in map sheets.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RU:%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%82-%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3/Solo_Mapping_Party/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C_2010-06-26
Seven years later I made a QGIS plugin for automatically forming walking papers of any area, with special care for mapping parties and making the map as big as possible.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Zverik/diary/41851
It resulted in my first pull-request to QGIS 3 — alas still not supported by the plugin.
My focus on ground surveying started basically when I joined OSM. Among my first wiki pages was "Solo Mapping Party": thoroughly documented experience of drawing and filling in map sheets.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/RU:%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D1%82-%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B3/Solo_Mapping_Party/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C_2010-06-26