[Openstreetmap-dev] Feasibility of clients of the OpenStreetMap 0.2 API, and Freemap

[Ben Gimpert]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 09:12:02PM +0100, Immanuel Scholz wrote:
> > Or is it better if I pursue my original plan to have Freemap as an OSM
> > client, fetch OSM data via the API, and draw the maps with the XML thus
> > returned?
> 
> This is a fundamental question to me and I'd like to discuss this a bit
> more general: 
> 
> What is the *main* goal for the OSM server and is this the currently
> state of the server code?
> 
> a) Provide a data server for clients to modify map data in a wiki like
> style
> 
> b) Provide a web-client for users to modify map data in a wiki like
> style

Imi,

Yes, B. Part of the wiki nature is a very low barrier of entry to making
changes. The wiki nature is what makes OSM cool. I don't believe a heavy
client is a solution for wiki-style editing, since it requires
downloading and installing various things. Now applets are not ideal
either, since they also make significant assumptions about the client's
system. Flash would be better, but is not really Free-as-in-freedom.
AJAX would be perfect, but much much work. My 2p.

		Ben


> c) Both: a and b. (This leads to a more complex, error prone and
> probably inperformant server).
> 
> Ciao, Imi.
> 
> 
> 
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