Albin - Great questions - my thoughts below.
On Monday, April 6, 2015, Albin Larsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Sharing my old and new thoughts about the OHM iD instance I'm working on. > > We are moving fast towards iD 1.8 and some of the new features implanted > in the core(OSM) instance is: > > - Conflict Resolution > - Smarter Way Movement > - Can't Delete an Element that is Part of a Route/Boundary Relation > - Map-In-Map(mini map) > > New in the OHM instance: > > - custom presents: end_date/start_date/source is now in the top tags > together with the name tag(+minor stuff). > - historical "imagery" > - new basic help section/introduction > > Stuff I need feedback on: > > I killed the idea about a timeslider, it isn't that mapping friendly > Can you clarify what you mean here? Is this ditching a slider in favor of some fixed time snapshots, as Tim discussed in a prior thread? Or, is this just a timeslider in iD? > and it requires some heavily JavaScript modifications to core, a better > idea would be to aim for a custom feature filter, this could be interesting > for other iD instances so it could be developed for core iD. Will aim for > that instead because other projects would use it and we won't be > maintaining it. When iD gets a plugin system I could consider working on a > timeslider again... > Do you have any thoughts on moving to a vector tile approach and filtering locally? > > What are some custom tags OHM uses? and should the be added to iD? > Personally I like the idea of a year tag(I use ohm:year(nypl:year/year/date > exists too)) great when start/end_date is unknown but one or several years > is known. Another example could be the linked data tagging idea I wrote > about or the existing historic tags( > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:historic). All tagging needs > discussions, but adding it to iD is simple... > I'm hoping we can get some more detailed input from other Linked Data gurus on this idea & some that you have on your great blog post. > Translations? I removed all translations in the past, but can we maintain > any? > Language translations? I would think we'd want these. > Should I add the 2008/2009 tile layers to background settings? > Sure! > > The starting point for iD is currently New York, but it's not a super > example of mapping, what are the best area for show case existing mapping? > > Existing or historical? Historical, I think we're still looking for a showcase example, but how about Buenos Aires or something older? > > Will be updating the live test version later this week when I got some > feedback/ideas so I can make changes fast and early! > THANK YOU!!! > > // > Albin > > -- Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org [email protected] 206-676-2347 OpenStreetMap: Mapping with a Human Touch osm: Open Historical Map (OHM) <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map> / my OSM user page <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> t: @GWHAThistory <https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory> / @OpenHistMap f: GWHAThistory <https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory>
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