Hi Richard,<br><br>as it comes to write a new online editor more or less from scratch, please consider adding an embedded validator and a first-class support for relations. I am a big proponent of Potlatch and I prefer to use it instead of JOSM as I work on landscape and road network editing mostly. But I must say, working with relations is a big pain. And even worse, it is extremely easy to break working relations if you don't pay enormous attention to avoid it.<div>
<br>Best regards,<br>Ivan.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Richard Fairhurst <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@systemed.net" target="_blank">richard@systemed.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi all,<br>
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At State of the Map US I gave a talk on OSM editors and subsequently spent a lot of time chewing the fat with the MapBox guys about the future.<br>
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The full talk is at <a href="http://www.systemeD.net/blog/index.php?post=24" target="_blank">http://www.systemeD.net/blog/<u></u>index.php?post=24</a> but to save you the full tl;dr experience - pretty clearly Flash is on the way out in the browser, and we need to have a JavaScript-based solution available. This also gives the opportunity to rework the UI, rather than doing a straight-across port, now that OSM has an ever-increasing profile and the chance to appeal to less technically minded contributors.<br>
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So, a couple of months ago I started on a JavaScript port of the Potlatch 2 internals, called iD. Happily, this coincides with MapBox winning the Knight Foundation grant to work on tools and projects around OSM; it seemed sensible to talk. (Probably less sensible for me to have quite so much American cider while doing so. Yeeouch, that stuff is strong.)<br>
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We're therefore planning to:<br>
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- build the core as a pure-JavaScript OSM-editing library, effectively reusing the internals of P2, so it can be a common base for future targeted editors;<br>
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- and to build iD as the first editor on top of that, aiming for ease of use but (like P2) the ability to work with any OSM data that exists.<br>
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We think we can get an alpha version of the editor ready by the end of the year - a real working editor but without bells and whistles. (We're sketching a list at <a href="https://github.com/systemed/iD/wiki/Alpha-1" target="_blank">https://github.com/systemed/<u></u>iD/wiki/Alpha-1</a> .)<br>
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So - come and join in. The code and issues are at <a href="https://github.com/systemed/iD" target="_blank">https://github.com/systemed/iD</a> . It's in a state of flux right now; expect it to change rapidly as issues get nailed down.<br>
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We'll be talking every Monday on IRC: #osm-dev (on <a href="http://irc.oftc.net" target="_blank">irc.oftc.net</a> as usual), 5pm UTC, beginning on Oct 22nd. Or you can ping me (RichardF) or Tom MacWright (tmcw) any time we're around.<br>
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Really looking forward to the first created_by=iD in the database. Come and make it happen. :)<br>
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cheers<br>
Richard<br>
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