To me, the current version certainly seems like a step back; I presumed either it was done to meet some other requirements, or I had just stupidly missed finding how to do what I wanted, so I didn't say anything at the time. In particular, ISTR it being much easier on the previous version to go from looking at your edit history, to having a particular changeset displayed centred in the slippy map and zoomed to fit. When mapping, I often want to come back to wherever I was last editing, and although it doesn't take that long to find something by panning and zooming manually, it was nice to have it done automatically.
I've just looked a bit further at this, and found that while the link from a mapper's edit history no longer brings the slippy map to the right place, the link from a friend's "most recent edit" on my profile page does take me there. The puzzling bit is that the two links are the same! __John On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Pieren <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's been some time now that the new web page is deployed, and despite the >> overall improvement, the regression for object browsing (tiny part of the >> screen is actually useful, map occupies most of the screen but is really not >> needed or could be much smaller at least, the current presentation style >> leads to scrolling requirement for any slightly more complex object) is >> still bothering the users. Also dates and times are not shown any more, >> instead there is approximated text like "almost 6 years ago", "12 months >> ago" etc. > > I don't know if I'm the only one have this issue : browsing from a > changeset to one of the list objects (way or node) does not update the > map view (firefox). So I have to zoom and move the map manually making > this web object browsing hard to use. This was not the case in the > past. > > +1 for the dates. Maybe something "nice" on the screen but not > something required by people using it. I'm just asking myself if the > devs really identified our needs with this object browser. The > previous version was maybe not so "nice" but really useful. Now we > have to move the mouse on each entry to see the date details > (especially when all of the history show you the same text...). Is it > an improvement ? > >> I understand that this is an open source project with volunteer >> contributions, but that part actually WAS already functional for years. >> Would it be possible to get the old browsing and history pages back, at >> least until someone comes up with an improvement? > > Maybe not a rollback but clearly, the current version is a downgrade > compared to what we had before (at least for those people who are > really taking a close look in data) and it's not evolving since then. > > Pieren > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
