For climbing areas that haven't been mapped/tagged in OSM (a lot of them in the US for example) I don't see it's being the problem. For existing areas I would have to convince OSM community to convert nodes to areas, either using iD, JOSM or my app. Am I seeing this right?
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > > > Am 24.04.2017 um 18:36 schrieb Viet Nguyen: > > Thanks Martin and Simon. > > It was my intention to reach out for suggestions before writing anything > to OSM db (and of course not without some testing with the dev instance). > > Simon, can you please clarify what you meant by 'there is no other data > there'? Are you referring to the risk of creating empty relations? > > I was referring to crag and other relevant data already being present in > OSM (note that your proposed app will lead to such situations even if you > believe that it currently can't happen). > > Simon > > Before writing to OSM my app would have to convert Geojson polygons (its > native format) to OSM list of nodes similar to areas in iD. > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 1:29 AM, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > >> Martin has already pointed to the iD repo. But some further comments from >> my side: simply creating objects and writing them to the OSM DB is fairly >> easy, however there is an unspoken assumption in your concept: that there >> is no other data there. In reality that will not be universally true and >> will add complications that you likely don't want to deal with (or if you >> ignore them you will not want to deal with being publicly roasted because >> your app starts breaking things). >> >> I would really suggest building on existing code except if you want to >> write the equivalent of a full blown editor all on your own (which is a >> couple of man years of work). >> >> Simon >> >> Am 23.04.2017 um 18:46 schrieb Viet Nguyen: >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm a new subscriber. I have looked on Github, iD repo, and npm but >> haven't found a Javascript that can be used with the editing API. Before >> rolling my own library (JS is not my strong suit) I thought I should check >> with members of the dev list. >> >> TLDR; >> I want to experiment with creating polygons describing rock climbing >> areas and submit them to OSM. >> >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2017-April/077879.html >> >> Viet >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing >> listdev@openstreetmap.orghttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >> >>
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