2009/1/31 Mario Ferraro <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > I don't want to join the topic of this particular "vandalism", just a > little constructive proposal. Feel free to throw me lemons :) > > IMHO the wiki is and in the future will be more unlikely to handle > "smoothly" ;) the voting and the map features, and it's prone to > vandalism like the one we're talking about. > > What about a web application to handle all discussions and polls, that > think automatically about handling map features and all the related > things for the various communities? In that way we can handle the polls, > percentuals against total osm mappers, an eventual communication with > tag watch (and all the other rules we can imagine that could be sensible > for a feature approval) and that can be the all-inclusive reference > point for mappers to read features, propose announcements (RSS?) and > poll on them. It could output the map feature XML that is in current > development for applications. Furthermore, no way that a single person > can destroy everything with a single wiki edit. > > I know that it would not be so immediate to produce such an application, > but if it's not started somewhere out there by someone (don't really > know), I will love to start the development myself (if it seems sensible > for someone else than me :))... and obviously will love if some other > dev wants to join. > > We will just go on with the wiki and use the application when it will be > ready anytime in the future. > > Just exploring the general mood.. what do you think? >
Absolutely. The main advantage of the wiki is that it's already developed software. If we had a dedicated web app which was actually geared from the start to allow discussion on tagging it would make things a lot easier. But only really if it could cope with having more than one tag solution for a problem, and was properly dynamic -- ie: people can change their minds. A web app doing something similar to Richard's Tags_I_Use suggestion would be awesome. If you've got the time then I'd say go for it :-) Dave _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
