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2. Field surveying tools
from http://fieldpapers.org/about.php
[Field Papers] (http://fieldpapers.org/) is a tool to help you create a multi-page atlas of anywhere in the world. Once you print it, you can take it outside, into the field, to record notes and observations about the area you're looking at, or use it as your own personal tour guide in a new city. Keep your eye on the Watch page for new atlases around the world.
Later, you can photograph each page in the atlas, and upload back into Field Papers. These photographs are called "snapshots" on the site. When you upload a snapshot, it's connected automatically to the atlas from whence it came. You can transcribe any notes you made in the field into Field Papers (as points or areas) and share the result with your friends, or download your notes for later analysis.
See the OSM wiki page for detailed instructions on how to use Field papers to generate a paper map that can be used to capture data and then import into OSM.
Several apps are available on various platforms that allow one to edit OSM in the field on a mobile device, with varying capabilities including adding/editing of POIs and geometries and tag editing. These can be useful for planned survey events but also impromptu mapping opportunities. See the wiki page for a comparison of the different mobile mapping options.
Mapillary is a service consisting of a database of crowdsourced, georeferenced street-level photos held under an open license and tools to collect, upload, and process these photos using computer vision. Metadata obtained from Mapillary photos (e.g. street numbers, road signs, and any other visible feature or attribute) as well as GPS traces are licensed under ODbl and thus are compatible with OpenStreetMap, which allow one to use Mapillary as a field survey tool. Mapillary offers mobile apps on the Android, iOS, and Windows Phone platforms that enable users to collect georeferenced photos which may be used to capture micro-level detail in the field for later import into OSM.