[OSM-dev] 2nd OSM Hack Weekend

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Richard Fairhurst wrote:
| Martijn van Exel wrote:
|
|> What we certainly need to do in advance is discuss the scope of the
|> OpenStreetBug-'platform' effort for the weekend.
|
| ...which kinda tallies with something I've started to wonder about.
|
| We need something for OSM that's as immediate as Google MapMaker, no
| question about that - a super-easy way for people to edit data
| without having to learn anything. Until recently I've assumed that
| this basically means Potlatch should be rewritten accordingly.
|
| But actually now I'm wondering whether it would be better to build an
| entirely new "map-drawing wizard" in an OpenStreetBugs style. Like it
| or loathe it :) , Potlatch is (IMeversoHO) a reasonably good
| middleweight editor, just as JOSM is a heavyweight editor: GMM,
| meanwhile, is great for the newbie, but I suspect would drive most
| Potlatch users up the wall.
|
| Would it be a better use of time to give "the new OSB" line-drawing
| capabilities, rather than persuading Potlatch to become something it
| isn't? I'd be interested to hear opinions.

I still don't see why the OpenStreetBugs site doesn't just put FIXME
nodes into the main database, perhaps under an "anonymous" username. It
it can put FIXME ways in the database as well, that's great.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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