Hi Richard, Great idea.
I have a quick thought performance/usability-wise - when there is a lot of objects to render (like buildings in a large city), Potlach and JOSM really struggle. I guess it's not a big problem since those editors are for more "patient" users - geeks :-) I wonder if for such a basic/welcoming editor it would be good to consider performance as a factor. Solution from Google Map Maker looks good at a glance (I have not used it too much) - you have to select a small area to work with so at any given time the number of objects shown does not degrade responsiveness. Paweł On Fri, Jul 13, 2012, at 10:31, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Hi all, > > Potlatch is five years old and JOSM is over six years old. Scary, isn't > it? > > Lots has changed in those five years. Browsers now do natively things > that used to require a plugin - indeed, you might not even have the > plugin anymore. OSM's changed, too, from a little-known geek project to > this behemoth of map data used by millions every day. > > So we need another editor. Not to replace what we have now: Potlatch > fulfils the intermediate editor role and JOSM fulfils the advanced > editor role very nicely. What we don't have, yet, is a simple, friendly > editor as a welcoming way into OSM. > > I thought I'd start writing one. > > So: iD. Pure JavaScript, using the Dojo toolkit (which is really nice). > > It's at a really early stage of development. It doesn't save anything > yet, nor do any tagging, nor even let you delete things - that's how > early it is. After all, it'll be much better if the collective brains of > OSM and elsewhere apply themselves to the challenge, rather than just me > sitting in a room in Charlbury. > > Fancy getting involved? > > Here's the project page: > http://www.geowiki.com/ > > And here's the source: > https://github.com/systemed/iD > > Throw questions at me (on dev@) or just get started and hack away. > Between us we can build something really good. > > cheers > Richard > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev