[OSM-dev] OSM Wishlist (community wishlist built experimentation)

[Alex Barth]

Sweet - I think such a list is great and useful for further informing priorities in OSM. I'd love to see this framed larger than the Knight funded work though. I am really worried about expectations. OpenStreetMap won't cover larger improvement needs with 500+k, OpenStreetMap need a lot more resources :) At the same time I think such a list should be encouraging people and other orgs to get started working on improving OSM. This is why I just took off the reference to MapBox and the Knight Grant from this wishlist. I've tried to tinker with the phrasing, but in the end I feel as long as it says 'mapbox' on there is an expectation that we'll be able to follow through on key things people ask for within the next months.

All that said, I am really interested in what people will come up with, I think the list as it stands right now is already very useful, thank you for working on this.

On Oct 18, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Kai Krueger <kakrueger at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/17/2012 09:04 PM, sly (sylvain letuffe) wrote:
>> However, it is not limited anymore to what people think should go into the
>> next API 0.7 version (I think it's even worse when you ask non-techies people
>> to find a solution themself) but to something gathering ideas of wishes they
>> find usefull for their work as mappers, what they miss more while editing (may
>> it be external tools, websites, software or, of course API improvements).
>> 
>> here it is, self-explained :
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors_functionalities_wishlist
>> 
>> If anyone here wants to give feedbacks before it goes to talk, please do.
> 
> I would suggest putting it on help.openstreetmap.org rather than on the wiki. I know that is a bit of an abuse of help, but the builtin voting system and reordering according to votes can be useful to help filter the list of wishes and suggestions. It should make the whole thing cleaner and more manageable.
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> Kai
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