Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
On Jan 28, 2008 9:46 AM, Martijn van Exel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That's very nice! I'm looking foorward to this.
Next step would be to add flagging functionality to the map, to enable
the general public to flag locations where something is not right (out
of date, misplaced,...)
I made a start here:
http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~kleptog/bugs.html
and there's another prototype around by some others. What needs to be
finished is the backend storage, and, most importantly you need a way
to display the resulting notes. OpenLayers doesn't currently have a
layer that is going to handle thousands of such notes on the map. What
you need is something like:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenLayers_Dynamic_POI
Which will only fetch the stuff that's in your area, but that code is
a complete hack and there are better ways of doing it, it just hasn't
been written yet.
Have a nice day,
I am not shure that I fully understand the usefulness of such a system.
As I understand it, it would enable users to highlight something
missing, or not right, on the slippymap and underlying OSM Data. I had a
look at the proposed system prototype. Now, if someone goes to the
trouble of browsing the slippymap, sees a problem, and then starts
filling out the report form (which is quite verbose), why not help that
user correct the problem himself? We can guide them on how to add/change
a POI, or draw a new road?
Just reporting the problem, and then hoping someone else goes back and
fixes it seems unproductive. I still think of OSM as a Wiki, and anyone
should be encouraged to make changes. I suspect that very often, we will
have reports saying, "hey the street I live in is missing here" , and
then you still need to somehow add that road, be it through local
knowledge (which the original report written most probably has, and is
gone if he believes that it will get sorted if he reports it, and that
is less than certain) and/or external datasources (tracklogs, yahoo
image layer , ... ).
In analogy of a Wiki, we could implement "talk" pages for geographic
areas, where one can then discuss for example the short comings of the
current OSM data revision, ideological discussions about a place name
and so on... That's where I see the benefit of such a "notes/tracs"
system, not in simply highlighting problems.
Cheers
Patrick
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