For what it's worth, for those who want to use the Notes facility of OSM remotely, I've worked on a predictably open source https://github.com/osmlab/osm-note boringly named project called OSM Note, that you can open on your phone like so http://osmlab.github.io/osm-note/and place notes, log in, and so on.
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Kai Krueger <[email protected]> wrote: > lsces wrote > > With the arrival of a 'new' set of controls, and the discussion on front > > page, I > > feel that it IS necessary to open this discussion a little wider. Having > > been > > using the new interface on mobile devices I find it much less usable than > > the > > older set-up. But that is not to say that the old one was actually > usable! > > As always this is somewhat subjective. Whereas on the desktop, I don't yet > see much of an advantage* other than that it is "prettier", I think it has > somewhat improved the usage on a mobile phone. The larger + - buttons make > them more touch friendly (pinch to zoom is very erratic and often doesn't > work at all for me) and the new geolocation functionality is a pretty neat > feature particularly for mobile use! The notes functionality, which can be > useful on a mobile, could probably do with some improvements (the bubbles > are to big to fit on a 5" screen properly), but overall are usable. iD > pretty much doesn't work at all on a phone, but then editing on a 4" touch > screen or on a 24" monitor with mouse and keyboard really are two very > different beasts and can't really be used in the same design. There you > simply want separate special purpose apps like Vespucci. > > One question would therefore be, what functionality of osm.org would you > hope to actually be able to use on a mobile phone? > > Browsing the map and adding / checking bugs seem like the most likely > candidates. Imho, those work reasonably well with the new design and can > probably be fixed up with some specific minor tweaks. > > For sat-navs and more sophisticated map applications there are a bunch of > special purpose apps, some of which work quite well already. > > Kai > > * Once the improvements of the share menu go in, that should change and > actually add real functionality to the map, which I am looking forward to. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/New-technology-tp5770731p5770762.html > Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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