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On 05/27/2011 01:54 AM, Steven Feldman wrote:
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type="cite">That's JFDI at it's best!</blockquote>
As much as I very much like and strongly encourage JFDI, strategic
and the SWG is not the right place for JFDI, that would be dev. SWG
is about <sarcasm> bullshitting around and coming up with a
(meaningless) strategy <sarcams> or slightly less sarcastic,
it is imho about gathering statistics to identify where the problems
lie in achieving the goals osm(f) has and what solutions they may
_theoretically_ be to get around those. Indeed, simply defining what
those goals are in the first place would be a good start. I.e.
design a strategy of which problems need solving in which way.
Others (dev) can then JFDI. And if they decide to ignore the
strategy SWG comes up with while JFDI, well so be it. SWG is imho a
helper organ to support others who do things by providing them with
information to make the correct decisions. The _people_ who do one
thing or another of cause don't have to be mutually exclusive.<br>
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If JFDI can't be done on dev anymore and needs to be done on SWG, we
have a problem. That would be an admission that the dev channels
have become so large and unmanageable that we need to create a new
smaller and exclusive cabal to go back to JFDI, which would imho be
bad.<br>
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Kai<br>
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<div>Questions from a non-coder. Could the search results?</div>
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<li>Appear in a drop down below the search rather than that
wide panel on the left, which you then have to close?</li>
<li>Be an ajaxy typeahead?</li>
<li>Be smartly limited? If you type in dublin, you almost
certainly mean Dublin, Ireland not some small town in the
Ohio. Do we have data to rank places and give the more
obvious search results?</li>
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<div>On 27 May 2011, at 03:15, Dermot McNally wrote:</div>
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<div>An update on this - because it will be a few days
before I can do much<br>
on this again, I've made some of the simpler changes
already and<br>
updated my github version. The changes against the version
I described<br>
earlier are:<br>
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* "Where am I?" is now called "Where is this?" and has
been moved to<br>
the permalink area. I'm not advocating this new name in
particular,<br>
but I think it's a better description of what the link
does. Likewise,<br>
I'm pretty sure the permalink area isn't where this should
live but<br>
there's no room for it in the slimline search form and it
doesn't<br>
really belong there anyway. See my earlier comments for
more thoughts<br>
on what we could do with this.<br>
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* As per SteveC's suggestion, there is no more "Search"
title on the<br>
form, the word "Search" instead appearing in the button.
Note that<br>
this has required widening the button, and, to most simply
stay within<br>
the container, reducing the width of the text field. I'm a
little<br>
concerned about the variation in button width that we
might have<br>
across different languages, where "go" seems to have been
compact<br>
enough across the board.<br>
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* The in-form examples are now gone, replaced with a link
to what I've<br>
for now called "Acceptable formats...". I do intend to
adopt SteveC's<br>
disappearing-grey-text suggestion, but that'll need some
JavaScript<br>
and I'm too tired to write that just now. I also feel that
the link,<br>
whatever it ends up being called, should not take you away
from the<br>
map page and certainly shouldn't link to the big Nominatim
article. So<br>
it probably wants to make a small popup/dialogue appear
with the same<br>
sort of examples as I removed, though probably there'll be
room for a<br>
few more of them.<br>
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Dermot<br>
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