Being able to record a commentary hands-free while surveying and then use it in JOSM is a great liberation and a big advance by David Earl. But, like the rest of JOSM, it has been developed incrementally, which doesn't always make for the best user interface. So forgetting about the technical difficulties, what would the user (e.g. me) like to see? This is about the no way-point mode only, which I see as likely to be used more, if its interface was easy.
The orange progress maker is a great concept. Not only is is fun to see it moving, it also encapsulates the user understanding "I was here when I said this". So to provide "what I said when I was here" the obvious way is to move the marker - drag the orange marker, which would snap to a GPX track point. This would avoid the current annoying interference between the audio interface (clicking on an audio icon) and the normal JOSM interface (selection, making nodes etc). It would also get rid of the blizzard of automatic audio markers (see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:JOSMAudioMarkers2.png), which have positions that are arbitrary to the user, and which occupy more space than is justified by their usefulness. Calibration is currently complicated and difficult to remember. With this proposal, the audio would be started and paused at the place you said NOW. The orange marker would then be SHIFT dragged to the geographical position that NOW corresponds to. It is is easy to understand "I *was* here when I said this", with the SHIFT implying coercion. It would be good if the interface could show where you were speaking and where you were silent. Background noise makes this a challenge, but assuming that it could be achieved, the information could be presented as a slight enlargement of the gpx points or thickening of any line connecting them, so that the information can be found if it is looked for, but the presentation is not too overwhelming if it not. Chris _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/josm-dev
