On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:49 AM, John Smith<delta_foxt...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > --- On Tue, 28/7/09, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> * The data is versioned, and anyone can edit it > >> I have a lot of GPX tracks that could be improved, e.g. by >> deleting > > I'd say deleting sections, but not editing... Only very erroneous information > should be "touched up" by deleting information.
Waypoint names & descriptions for one are something that makes sense to edit. When I'm out surveying I use cryptic abbreviations like "ohtup" for "on highway=track unpaved". I'd like to mass-edit my tracks to expand such abbreviations later through an API. But in any case the API supporting editing of an object doesn't mean that it /should/ be edited. With full editing allowed we'd still have version history and could simply revert edits that were inappropriate, just like with the rest of the data. >> point clouds. I'd like to edit them using normal OSM tools, >> have those >> edits versioned (so they can be rolled back), and have >> other users do >> those fixes for me. Just like with the OSM data I upload. > > Who can roll back changes, this is ongoing with the OSM data itself, at least > in this case it won't effect changes with anything else. Anyone. Why not? >> Free-form tags could obviously be used for other purposes, >> e.g. >> marking the trace as surveyed with a given GPS model. > > This would be a good idea regardless, as would exposing other meta data > already being stored. > >> How does this sound? I'm pretty happy with the 0.6 API > > Sounds like a good start but some of the finer points probably need to be > fleshed out a little more. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
