[OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] OsmNote - system for keeping and sharing notes on your OSM surveying

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 12:04:41PM +0000, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> Would like to announce the first prototype version of OsmNote - a system for keeping notes on your surveying, for later use by yourself and others. (For example, after surveying you could remind yourself that there are still a load of cul-de-sacs in an area which need doing)
> 
> It's based on the Mapnik slippy map; you can click on the map and add notes which will be shown as Google-style markers. Note that at present coverage is restricted to the areas which are rendered by the main Mapnik renderer; it's my intention to also offer Christopher Schmidt's metacarta layer but I need to go back and read his post on the slightly differing coordinate system. 

If you're adding points to the database based on mouseclicks in your
current map, then there's no way to make them overlay in the same way on
the map I'm maintaining -- the actual positions that you're storing are,
unfortuantely, wrong in a way that I'm not sure how to programatically
convert. 

Your converter function is pretty cool: I like the implementation route
you've gone there. You want an SVN sandbox in OL to check this into? Ah,
you actually probably have an OSM SVN you're working in, we can skip
that if you don't want. 

By the way, you can map.addControl(new OpenLayers.Control.Permalink());
-- that way I could copy your links and use them on the MetaCarta Labs
page.

Do you want me to pull your OSM notes layer in to use on the MetaCarta
page so we can see the difference in locations? Or would you prefer to
maintain the free-map.org.uk as the only interface for adding these
notes? (I ask because if you want to keep them seperate, I'm only going
to end up implmenting the same thing ;) I might actually do it anyway,
because I'd like to see what's involved, and it shouldn't be that
complex of a task.)

You've done great work on this -- I'm impressed. Nice job.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta