On 2 Jul 2009, at 09:44, Dair Grant wrote: > 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.
good point > 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? see the tags idea > 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. these are all good points, I say lets build the simple bits and iterate. > > > -dair > ___________________________________________________ > [email protected] http://www.refnum.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > Best Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
