Frederik Ramm wrote: >> And if the user indicates that he just wants to add a PoI, redirect him to >> http://ae.osmsurround.org/ so that he can add it directly to the database. >> > That's the point I was trying to make - do not hog all the bugs in one central > place and allow users to do only what you have coded; instead open this up so > that anybody can hook their app into the user interface to offer > functionality.
Is the bugs database really so different in character to the map database though? Provided there was a planet-style dump of the bug database, anyone wishing to build an external system could easily do so. It's true that lat/lon/text wouldn't be sufficient for all bugs, but how many would that model work for - 75% or more? Most bugs are either for a specific location (name is wrong, street is missing, etc), or a fairly well defined area (all the footpaths in this park need doing, there's a place=hamlet|village|etc node but there's no ways within 5km of it). There are meta-bugs too (are imported political boundaries really in the correct place, is a blank area of the map really blank or just unmapped?), but how best to track them will depend on what they are (so you might as well collect a few examples and look for patterns first). Worst-case you could simply use a lat/lon/text entry as a link to some external tracker until such time as its model could be supported (either directly, or by better integration with external trackers - although I would hope the former). But however it works behind the scenes, it gives you one place that bug reporting/visualisation can coalesce around - you go to www.* to see the map, wiki.* to see the wiki, and bugs.* for bugs. -dair ___________________________________________________ d...@refnum.com http://www.refnum.com/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk