GSoC 2026 idea feedback – iD tagging preset visualization tool

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Hello everyone,

My name is Shyam Pandey and I am a GSoC 2026 applicant interested in contributing to OpenStreetMap.

For the past 2–2.5 months, I have been exploring and contributing to the iD editor and participating in issue discussions. My GitHub username is shyam-123pandey.

I have also been actively using the iD editor to understand how presets, fields, and tagging workflows work in practice.

Recently I started working on a project idea related to improving transparency of the id-tagging-schema used in iD.

The idea is to build a visualization tool that would help contributors understand:

  • Preset inheritance
  • Field origins and overrides
  • Preset relationships
  • Translation coverage

I have already worked on the system design: ( Eraser ) and architecture, and I am currently developing a prototype implementation.

I would really appreciate feedback from the community on whether this tool would be useful or if there are suggestions to improve the idea.

Thank you for your time!

Best,
Shyam Pandey

Portfolio: https://shyam.social
GitHub: Shyam-123pandey (shyam pandey) · GitHub

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I don’t know them, but I will try to give you a possible “cheat” answer: It seems to suggesting to make a feature preset ver of the chain entity viewer https://nsi.guide/
Its presentation and visualization does need to be improved. “inheritance of fields from other presets” is the feature preset unique requirement. “regional variants of a preset/field” are shown as different rows for chains, which should be nested/indented/whatever inside the generic one.
Personally as a user, I would prefer them to be combined. I don’t know how different they are though.

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Thank you for the suggestion!

This idea is from the official OpenStreetMap GSoC 2026 ideas list, and I became interested in it while exploring the id-tagging-schema used in the iD editor. I have been contributing around the iD ecosystem for the past couple of months, so this project caught my attention.

I am currently working on this idea — I have already designed the system architecture and am now building a prototype (frontend + backend) to explore preset inheritance visualization, field origins/overrides, and preset relationships.

Currently this NSI Guide is not opening but when it will be open, I will also explore how similar visualization ideas could be adapted for presets.

If it would be helpful, I would be happy to share the prototype once it is ready. Would mentors or contributors be open to reviewing it before I submit the official GSoC proposal??

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Please suggest me furthur on my reply.

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If you haven’t talked to the potential mentors for this project idea yet, I would suggest to also approach them directly.

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Sir i sent mail, even direct msg from official page in OSM project mentor mention inside projects, but not getting any respone.
Please help.

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Sir i am not getting response from mentor, what should i do, i approached all way as per given on official page.

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I would suggest giving the mentor a bit of time to respond.

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Yaa Please tell. Because i am going to do now again a mail with prototype link.

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“time” as in a couple of days.

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Okay thanks but tell them because sir this all things combines 2-3 month moderate work.

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@tyr_asd Hello sir please see this prototype of application : https://presetexplorer.netlify.app/ and respond on direct msg and mail also. Please working to much and contributing before 2-3 month, really excited to be part of GSOC’26