[OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist

[Tom MacWright]

Hey Sly,

The simple answer is that MapBox (including myself) is finding ways to
improve OpenStreetMap.

Some of these are pretty obvious (design!), and some of them require a very
high level of knowledge (API changes). By posting here, I'm trying to get a
good idea of what exists, what experts think about problems and priorities,
and what other issues need addressing.

What this is, is neither "voting on community suggestions" nor is it "rule
from your friendly overlord". Life is full of middles.

That said, let's talk less about talking and your personal suspicions and
more about actual substance; aka un-derail this thread.

Tom

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:03 PM, sly (sylvain letuffe) <liste at letuffe.org>wrote:

> Le lundi 15 octobre 2012 18:13:34, Paweł Paprota a écrit :
> > - people who do the actual programming work choose what they want to
> > work on.
>
> I think this is a little different here (this thread) than usually is (even
> with what usually happen with OSM core development)
>
> Tom started this thread with :
> > So, along with the big 'kicking off' blog post on MapBox[1]
> (...)
> >What are the tasks which everyone agrees on, but nobody has had the time
> to
> >tackle?
> > [1]: http://mapbox.com/blog/kicking-off-knight-work/
>
> By "everyone" I assume he meant "everyone on the dev list" (or everyone of
> the
> osm community) which is another way no to say "What task do I want to work
> on"
>
> And reading the linked blog about the "big 'kicking off'" what I
> understand is
> that he is not saying the MapBox team is going to work on what they want
> but
> "Build in the open : to allow anybody in the OpenStreetMap community to
> engage
> and to facilitate a transparent process"
>
> In the end, what I understand of his "OSM Wishlist" thread, is that he
> wants
> to start work at "some intentionally broad, but it aims to:
>    1. Improve editing of OpenStreetMap data
>    2. Make the OpenStreetMap experience more social
>    3. Make it easier to get data out of OpenStreetMap"
> And since this is really "broad", he is willing to gather tasks, agreed by
> the
> OSM community.
>
>
> > they can work on what
> > they like, instead of working on what their boss or a customer order
> > them to work on.
>
> Maybe we are in between on this thread ;-)
>
> > If you propose to change it by creating a community-driven
> > (instead of "admin"-driven as you put it) wishlist, by any means - do
> > it. The operative word being "do".
>
> I'll be glad to do so, and will start it. Unless the MapBox team (and tom)
> doesn't want to look at such a process (in the end gathering wish never
> read
> is just going to spend my time)
>
>
> --
> sly (sylvain letuffe)
>
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