[OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist

[Robert Scott]

On Friday 12 October 2012, Tom MacWright wrote:
> Hey all (or, well, those subscribed to dev@ - my flamewar shields are at
> 50% so I'm not risking an email to talk),
> 
> So, along with the big 'kicking off' blog post on MapBox[1], I posted three
> basic issues in the openstreetmap-website tracker - JSON support, filtering
> on the main api, and a tag api.
> The three of these were closed by Tom Hughes, which is fine - they might be
> all bad ideas, and if we're treating the issue tracker as "Stuff we all
> agree is definitely good", then they don't belong there: they're relatively
> undiscussed ideas, since I had just posted them. But that's beside the
> point of this email:
> 
> What do you want to see happen with OSM's software this year? What are the
> tasks which everyone agrees on, but nobody has had the time to tackle?
> 
> Tom
> 
> [1]: http://mapbox.com/blog/kicking-off-knight-work/
> 

Something I would find interesting personally is an API interface to diary entries (for reading at least). Namely a "geolocated diary entries within bbox" call (I'm not sure there's even a spatial index over diary entries atm). This would allow easy ("easy") implementation of a map-based diary entry browser a la http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Robert#Diary_entries and generally go towards creating better use of diaries.


robert.