I‘ve seen it mentioned a few times as being superior to the iD editor but the learning curve seems somewhat steep. I started mapping areas in Vietnam that haven‘t gotten much love so far and I encountered a few limitations with the iD editor. The buildings in Vietnam are a pain to map. Is it better in the long run to learn JOSM for this use case?
Edit: Thanks for all the responses! I took the plunge and am now editing in JOSM :)


As others have said, the building tools plugin easily makes it worth it. Where i map there’s a lot of terraces too so being able to automatically split an area up into even chunks has saved me countless hours. Once you’ve used it for a while, you’ll be able to map a lot faster than on iD