I'd like to say how useful I've found the new data layer recently. I don't know who did this (Tom?) but well done and thank you! I particularly like the ability to see what's changed in the History Detail page.
It would be really useful if itoworld's ways were linked to it as more than one of us has suggested on the wiki page for osm mapper. Is there a reason why, when looking at an object in the data layer, the history summary can't be displayed straight away rather than via another link, 'show history'. The space is there unused. I guess it is another database access, but that doesn't mean it also needs to be a user interface gesture. If you're not interested in it, well I guess you just don't read it, but if you are, you always need a second click. The history dates would be a little easier to read if the 'T' in the data/time string were replaced with a space. Could the user names in the history summary be linked to the relevant user pages? How about the number of objects before you get the "more than 100 objects" message be configurable based on user logged in (if any) - presumably up to some maximum that won't overload the server, but the API does that anyway IIRC. My browser is apparently quite comfortable with many hundreds of objects - I just did the whole of Ely with more than 1,000 objects at zoom 14 and there was no perceptible performance problem (though some of the features are a little small to select at that scale). David _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
