Indeed. I should note that the imagery is helpful but also consumes a fair amount of bandwidth. A lovely future mod would be a "no imagery" option.
Robert Banick | GIS Coordinator | International Services | Ì American Red Cross <http://www.redcross.org/> 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 Tel 202-303-5017 | Cell 202-805-3679 | Skype robert.banick On 9/30/13 6:12 PM, "Paul Norman" <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: Kate Chapman [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 3:35 AM >> Simon Johnson; Tom MacWright >> Subject: Re: [HOT] The status of iD in HOT contexts/projects >> >> Hi Robert/All, >> >> I wanted to mention we'll be using iD as well for the mapping begin this >> week in Haiphong. It is currently the only OSM editor with decent >> Vietnamese support. I'm a bit concerned about conflicts during our >> training, but intend to use the Tasking Manager to try to avoid that. > >Because iD discards all of its data on save and reloads new data from the >API if you have your users save frequently it will also get them >refreshing >their local data frequently, significantly cutting down on conflicts. > >If you're in a limited bandwidth situation I wouldn't worry about the >increased >bandwidth usage because the map data comes compressed and even when >loading >a dense urban area only about 25% of the bandwidth is used for map data, >the >remainder mainly being used by aerial imagery. > > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
