Thanks Richard for taking this away. What's compelling on iD is the vision of creating an editor that is
- Aiming to be straightforward and easy to learn (doesn't mean dumbed down!) - Hence more approachable to new comers - More attuned to maintaining the map than creating a map on a blank canvas - Taps into directly into the lessons learned from Potlatch 2 - Browser based - JS based - Modular (make it easy to build other editors with its components) - Can be developed very iteratively Really looking forward to pushing on iD Alpha 1. As you noted work's already going on on http://github.com/systemed/iD On Oct 19, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > At State of the Map US I gave a talk on OSM editors and subsequently spent a > lot of time chewing the fat with the MapBox guys about the future. > > The full talk is at http://www.systemeD.net/blog/index.php?post=24 but to > save you the full tl;dr experience - pretty clearly Flash is on the way out > in the browser, and we need to have a JavaScript-based solution available. > This also gives the opportunity to rework the UI, rather than doing a > straight-across port, now that OSM has an ever-increasing profile and the > chance to appeal to less technically minded contributors. > > So, a couple of months ago I started on a JavaScript port of the Potlatch 2 > internals, called iD. Happily, this coincides with MapBox winning the Knight > Foundation grant to work on tools and projects around OSM; it seemed sensible > to talk. (Probably less sensible for me to have quite so much American cider > while doing so. Yeeouch, that stuff is strong.) > > We're therefore planning to: > > - build the core as a pure-JavaScript OSM-editing library, effectively > reusing the internals of P2, so it can be a common base for future targeted > editors; > > - and to build iD as the first editor on top of that, aiming for ease of use > but (like P2) the ability to work with any OSM data that exists. > > We think we can get an alpha version of the editor ready by the end of the > year - a real working editor but without bells and whistles. (We're sketching > a list at https://github.com/systemed/iD/wiki/Alpha-1 .) > > So - come and join in. The code and issues are at > https://github.com/systemed/iD . It's in a state of flux right now; expect it > to change rapidly as issues get nailed down. > > We'll be talking every Monday on IRC: #osm-dev (on irc.oftc.net as usual), > 5pm UTC, beginning on Oct 22nd. Or you can ping me (RichardF) or Tom > MacWright (tmcw) any time we're around. > > Really looking forward to the first created_by=iD in the database. Come and > make it happen. :) > > cheers > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
