[OSM-dev] Software development - most pressing issues

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Rob wrote:
> i have made a prototype notes system with help of crschmidt on
> http://burghthof.nl/osm/ and it is supported by the symbian WhereAmI
> application (http://www.symbianos.org/projects/47)
> however it's not in ruby

I think that notes like this should just be stored as normal tags on
nodes/ways as k=note, v=[whatever]. That way all existing editing
infrastructure can pick them up easily - you can load them into JOSM or
potlatch, you can search for them with the zappy api etc.

It may be nice, however if there was a way to add this tag (and only
this tag) when you are not logged in. One method would be to have some
sort of proxy that would use it's own username to add them. The other
would be to write something clever in the ruby code to support anonymous
notes.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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