[OSM-dev] OSM clickable POIs - implementation?

[Shaun McDonald]

On 6 Jan 2008, at 15:55, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:41:42PM +0000, Shaun McDonald wrote:
>> Personally I think that being able to easily edit a road name/type or
>> a point of interest without having to load a big/medium sized editor,
>> such as JOSM or Potlatch, is really useful.
>
> Something like this?
>
> http://crschmidt.net/osm/osm.html
>
> Click on a way, you get the ID and all the attributes on the right  
> hand
> side. You can then click 'edit', which takes you to
> http://crschmidt.net/osm/attributes.html?type=way&id=8615004 , where  
> you
> can edit the attributes (and you'll be posting your data from the
> browser to what is the OSM API directly -- the password/username is  
> just
> using the API's basic auth), and save them.
>
> Then you can view the history of the way:
>
> http://crschmidt.net/osm/history.html?type=way&id=8615004
>
> This all works directly against the API, and should work in FF1.5+,
> IE6+, Opera 8+, and Safari 3+.

As a proof of concept, this is brilliant. I'd love to see something  
similar to this as an optional editor on the OSM web site.

Shaun
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