Zverik,
On 10.05.2013 10:29, Ilya Zverev wrote:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/GeoChat
That sounds great. I always wanted to have something like that!
I have some thoughts about it - not meant to criticize, I'm really
looking forward to seeing this used more widely!
* Are "private" messages really "private" in the senses that only the
user logged in as the recipient will receive them? If not, maybe rename
to "directed messages" or so.
* If this catches on, there will soon be demand for some kind of
authentication - that keeps me from joining the chat under the name
"Zverik" or so ;) maybe it could be implemented with OAuth, where the
server would check with the OSM server whether the logged-in user has
the same user name in OSM, and then notifies clients whether a certain
user name is "authenticated" or not. People could still use any name but
clients could make them show up in grey or so if they're not authenticated.
* I don't yet understand how messages are located. You seem to be using
point coordinates only, so if i write something is that always mapped to
the centre of my curren viewpoint? If I zoom out and have a 50x50km area
on my screen, will I only see the messages pertaining to a 20km circle
in the middle of my screen? - I have a feeling that maybe the plugin and
protocol might benefit from extending this to use rectangles in sending
as well as polling for messages.
* Auto-login for the plugin would be great.
* Maybe announce on JOSM's "message of the day" to get more people to
try it out?
Great work!
Bye
Frederik
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