On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Graham Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 28 November 2011 19:10, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> That makes sense, but how do you deal with logging the modifier of the >> data - is this a webapp, and do people log in with OAuth? >> > If you decide to develop this as a web application, it might be worth > looking at the outcome of one of last year's Google Summer of Code projects, > where Michael Daines was working on a simple map editor based on javascript > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_Map_Editor - source code > at https://github.com/mdaines/simple-map-editor). > He got it working with OAuth so it could be a good basis for your > application if you produce a custom user interface for it.
That does look interesting, although I'm not sure whether I would want to have people edit the database directly. I agree with Josh that the application should require no login at all. I don't like the route wheelmap.org goes, for all the credit that project deserves, as it opens the door for anonymous editing which we - for good reasons - got rid of in the stone age. That means that there will be a layer of improvements to imported point data that will have to be merged into the OSM database somehow. I like the way Frontdoor seems to approach the problem of anonymous microtasking, Josh mentioned this as well. Each feature would have to have at least N (3?) improvement tasks attached to it, and the new points would have to be within a certain distance from each other. What would happen on the back end though? Assign a higher trust level to objects that have received more tasks? I also like the idea of having registered OSM users edit directly. This would mean OAuth integration. As I am not a rails person, I would look at python for an implementation[1]. [1] example for a command line instance: https://gitorious.org/osm-poi-tools/monetdb/blobs/master/osmfixer/osmfixer.py -- martijn van exel geospatial omnivore 1109 1st ave #2 salt lake city, ut 84103 801-550-5815 http://oegeo.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
