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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29.09.16 15:15, Andy Allan wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On 29 September 2016 at 12:14, Simon Poole <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:simon@poole.ch"><simon@poole.ch></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">and as chair of the likely largest spender (ignoring
depreciation) of OSMF funds outside of the board
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I think you overlooked OWG there :-)
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<pre wrap="">The projects that come to my mind immediately for 2017 would be
- group messaging
- news dropdown (this was part of the original redesign proposal but
never got done)
naturally opinions may differ on these, but they would seem to be
reasonably non-controversial and not involve amounts of money that we
can't afford.
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I respectfully disagree. At the moment we have a large codebase and
very few people working on it. The moment the money is spent, we'll
have a larger codebase, and still very few people working on it.
I would rather see time, effort and/or money being spent with the
primary goal of encouraging more developers by making it easier to
contribute to the code. I have a big long list of things that can be
done in this regard, easily equal in terms of man-hours to what you
suggest above.
More information in a recent post:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://blog.gravitystorm.co.uk/2016/09/15/refreshing-the-openstreetmap-codebase/">https://blog.gravitystorm.co.uk/2016/09/15/refreshing-the-openstreetmap-codebase/</a>
Thanks,
Andy
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I would like to have a feature to add oblique aerial and ground
photos to objects on the OSM map. Similar to Google Map, but better.
Here is a couple of examples of oblique low-altitude aerial images
for a train station <i>La Plaine</i>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://goo.gl/maps/mjMkHTS8GA72">https://goo.gl/maps/mjMkHTS8GA72</a> and <br>
a nature reserve <i>Teppes de Verbois</i>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://goo.gl/maps/mjJuVT3ruQU2">https://goo.gl/maps/mjJuVT3ruQU2</a><br>
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Google Map automatically reduces resolution of images, what is not
good for seeing details for mapping. It is possible to add images to
the OSM map indirectly via Wikimedia, no resolution reduction in
this case, but an object should have a notability.<br>
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DJI released a new foldable quad-copter Mavic
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dji.com/mavic">http://www.dji.com/mavic</a> , with the 4K camera and 7 km range, which
can be carried in a briefcase. It is an absolute revolution in
aerial photography. However, I guess such a feature would be more
than "some money", as each image takes about 3 MB. But maybe in
future, when disk capacity increases further?<br>
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Best regards,<br>
OLeksiy<br>
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