[Potlatch-dev] What happened to the Natural category?
Hello Potlatch developers,. I edit a lot in the American Southwest, where there are a lot of natural parks, national forests, preserves and many other natural areas. However, Potlatch2 includes no category for natural. Wwe used to have it in Potlatch1. Why is it no longer included? Also, because the Southwest is a desert area, where a road crosses a stream, often there is only a ford rather than a bridge. This is because 99% of the time the stream is dry. Can we add ford to the Bridge drop-down menu? And can we add intermittent under the Water category? Thanks! Charlotte Wolter Charlotte Wolter 927 18th Street Suite A Santa Monica, California 90403 +1-310-597-4040 techl...@techlady.com Skype: thetechlady The Four Internet Freedoms Freedom to visit any site on the Internet Freedom to access any content or service that is not illegal Freedom to attach any device that does not interfere with the network Freedom to know all the terms of a service, particularly any that would affect the first three freedoms. ___ Potlatch-dev mailing list Potlatch-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/potlatch-dev
Re: [OSM-dev] Friend's diaries Nearby users changesets and diaries
hi, I tried to follow your thread, hopefully I didn't miss anything. I would like to see the user page/dashboard page esp. for things that can only be done at osm.org so that is basicaly statistics and data analysis/presentation as you pointed out. I'm not sure if another communication channel (we have PMs, IRC, twitter, ) would be realy necessary but on the other hand, why not. Personally I miss a real broadcast message, so for mapping parties, I can notify all people within a certain area e.g. for mapping parties. The idea with different diameters is quit good, I like to extend it, with further options to choose the right audience: active contributors in a area, living in a area (by home location), by relation (direct friends), city/country/state levels, by activity (who is active at least once a week etc.). The spam aspect might be eliminated by the system by asking say 3 others (registered for more than a year, actively contributing the last 2 months, living not to far away). Or this privilege can be given by moderators/admins. Personally I track new users with ITO (checking for people I don't know their user pages), that can be done automatically.. Some were suprised, but the most enjoyed my offer for help and the recommendation of our local meetings. I like to suggest to working on features, that can be done/are currently done with third party services. The diary blog is nice, but lacks on easy to use formating abilities (bbcode, ...) but for that we got the bigger OSM blogs. We don't need a personal pinboard, as the most users use the wiki user page for that. But maybe it's useful for people to let them categorize themselves (would be great social data). For example categories/tags that describe (I'm a student that likes collecting housenumbers and adding highly detailed informations. As well I trace aerial imagery, but just in my state. I do communication within the project (multiplyer) and to the outside) If this informations would be machine readable, it would be very good for choosing communication groups (as what we currently maintain as local contacts http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Local_contacts So my point is, please don't try to create another social network, and keep the design simple and focused on stats and communication and provide just what is necessary. ;) I really enjoy that people working on the RoR port! bye Matthias (user:!i!) ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
Re: [OSM-dev] Friend's diaries Nearby users changesets and diaries
Hi, On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi A problem I was considering was how to allow more communication between local mappers. We don't want to build a spam engine. But at the moment, it is laborious and hit or miss to reach to mappers in a particular area. Diary entries are an unobtrusive communication stream. Right now, you can get an individuals diary entries, diary entries in a particular language, or just all of the entries. So I added two filters, linked to from your own User page ... diary entries from your friends, and diary entries by nearby users. And just to balance, added changesets by nearby users too. That's a great start and it looks like they're already deployed. I want to see how easy / difficult it is to group your friends, either by creating friend groups or by binning friends into geographical areas (bounding boxes). If I am anywhere near the average OSM web site user, I have OSM 'friends' in several places where I lived / mapped a lot / visited. It would be nice to have that additional filter capability. Taking the 'changesets by friends' one step further would be to sort them by most active editors (in the last week / month / year). If the User page does involve into a much more useful dashboard-type page we should also rethink its place on the home page. Right now you reach it through clicking on your user name, which communicates something like 'access account settings' to me. Something you'd only click if the system behaves unexpectedly. Let my just boldly suggest that it could be a tab 'My OSM' or something in the future. [..] Some further issues to explore later. * Diary filters should be on the diary page itself. * Diary entries can have a location too. Add filter for this too. * Your own user profile page is getting crowded. * Would be nice to sort nearby users by their last changeset edit. More generally I'm thinking about the user profile page. It has two functions ... one to view other people, and another as a dashboard for yourself. I think these should start to diverge into two different pages. The user profile should be grown to give a better idea of what a mapper is up to. Richard's statistics would work well here (http://rweait.dev.openstreetmap.org/daily/board_career.html). Recent changesets and diary entries could be pulled into one page. Agreed! There are some excellent 'what am I up to' tools out there already. Some of Pascal Neis's tools come to mind http://neis-one.org/tools/ .I know we are very reluctant to rely on external services / content in the OSM web site, but we can at least provide links. And I'm a huge fan of stats, so I already love Richard's page (I actually had not seen it before - does it rely on the full history planet or did it gather those stats as it ran?) The Dashboard would be a focus point for a mapper to stay on top of everything they care about in OSM. So in one page, give a summary of what friends and nearby users are up to, but also what's happening in places you care about. For many users, myself included, there are many areas you've mapped, and would like to keep track of. Right now, you explicitly express interest by declaring your home location. This could be expanded to multiple, manually specified locations (my top 10 areas); or by analysis, a list of your top areas for editing could be automatically compiled. Both of these are going to need some smart design. My immediate thoughts are that a dashboard would compile a stream of activity. If anyone of any stripe is interested in collaborating on anything around these ideas, or other ideas, let's get to work. Yes. IANAD, and by no means a rails expert, but I did fork and install the Rails Port on my development server and read up on rails over the break, so I'm as ready as I'll ever be for some action. On a related note, we are trying to put together a hack weekend in (probably) DC next month, hope to get an announcement out soon. It would be the weekend of the 18th/19th. Best, -- martijn van exel geospatial omnivore 1109 1st ave #2 salt lake city, ut 84103 801-550-5815 http://oegeo.wordpress.com ___ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
[josm-dev] Created a plugin, want to distribute it.
Hi guys. I've created a plugin that lets you create geometry based on lat lon coordinates. It's like a beefed up version of the Add Node tool. It takes a list of coordinates in text form, and then created a set of nodes, a way or a closed way depending on what you want. Right now it can only add new geometry, but i plan to let it change existing geometry by letting you select a feature first and then using the tool. The reason i made this is that I need it for my aviation project where airspaces often are defined by coordinates. I figured the tool also could be good for OpenStreetMap, there probably are things other than airspaces that are defined by coordinates. I'd like to have this plugin in the JOSM SVN. What is required of me/it to get that? ___ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
Re: [josm-dev] Created a plugin, want to distribute it.
On Jan 8, 2012 8:31 AM, Morten Olsen Lysgaard mor...@lysgaard.no wrote: Hi guys. I've created a plugin that lets you create geometry based on lat lon coordinates. It's like a beefed up version of the Add Node tool. It takes a list of coordinates in text form, and then created a set of nodes, a way or a closed way depending on what you want. Right now it can only add new geometry, but i plan to let it change existing geometry by letting you select a feature first and then using the tool. The reason i made this is that I need it for my aviation project where airspaces often are defined by coordinates. I figured the tool also could be good for OpenStreetMap, there probably are things other than airspaces that are defined by coordinates. I'd like to have this plugin in the JOSM SVN. What is required of me/it to get that? I think this would fit in with utilsplugin2. Make a patch and attach it to a ticket. Josh ___ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
Re: [josm-dev] Created a plugin, want to distribute it.
On 01/08/2012 03:04 PM, Josh Doe wrote: On Jan 8, 2012 8:31 AM, Morten Olsen Lysgaard mor...@lysgaard.no wrote: Hi guys. I've created a plugin that lets you create geometry based on lat lon coordinates. It's like a beefed up version of the Add Node tool. It takes a list of coordinates in text form, and then created a set of nodes, a way or a closed way depending on what you want. Right now it can only add new geometry, but i plan to let it change existing geometry by letting you select a feature first and then using the tool. The reason i made this is that I need it for my aviation project where airspaces often are defined by coordinates. I figured the tool also could be good for OpenStreetMap, there probably are things other than airspaces that are defined by coordinates. I'd like to have this plugin in the JOSM SVN. What is required of me/it to get that? I think this would fit in with utilsplugin2. Make a patch and attach it to a ticket. Josh +1. If you plan further development, you might want to get an osm svn-account. See [1] and [2] for details. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SVN [2] http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/DevelopersGuide/SVN_Account Paul ___ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
