I have added this as a proposed student project for this year's Google Summer of Code (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2010). Please feel free to add to the scope of the project. I might leave the choice of platform (Flash, Javascript, Java etc.) as a design choice the student to make it more interesting.
Regards Graham. On 28 February 2010 23:07, Randy <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave Stubbs wrote: > > >On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Randy <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>Dave, > >> > >>Do you have any way to estimate the resource requirements for Potlatch 2, > >>and what they would be if a "simple" switch were added. > >> > > > >Potlatch 2 currently runs on my netbook, and seeing as how I develop > >it on my netbook it should continue to do so :-) My netbook is an > >Atom 1.6GHz 1GB RAM BTW. > > > >The SWF size is about 550KB at the moment, most of which will be the > >flex gui framework and associated bits and pieces, so will be present > >in any flex based flash app. > > > >If you do a break down of where the code is at the moment: > > - about 20 classes for tag editing (the "simple" user stuff) > > - about 10 classes for vector editing > > - about 20 classes for handling OSM objects, and talking to the API 0.6 > > - about 25 classes for rendering data (halcyon) > > > >Simple mode basically takes out the vector editing stuff. > > > >You can obviously make something a lot lighter if you weren't using > >flex. Well, startup bandwidth lighter at least. > > > >Dave > > > >_______________________________________________ > >talk mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > Thanks, Dave. I'm sure others with more experience than I can make a > better independent assessment, but it doesn't look particularly daunting > to me, as far as penalizing the early user. > > Granted, if it's doable (and widely supported), a super simple JS2 editor > might be lighter in startup. But, as someone else mentioned earlier, it's > probably worth some sacrifice to keep the UI between simple and powerful > as similar as possible. > -- > Randy > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Dr. Graham Jones Hartlepool, UK email: [email protected]
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