[OSM-dev] iD update - building a JavaScript editor for OSM

[Ivan Komarov]

Hi Richard,

as it comes to write a new online editor more or less from scratch, please
consider adding an embedded validator and a first-class support for
relations. I am a big proponent of Potlatch and I prefer to use it instead
of JOSM as I work on landscape and road network editing mostly. But I must
say, working with relations is a big pain. And even worse, it
is extremely easy to break working relations if you don't pay enormous
attention to avoid it.

Best regards,
Ivan.

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> At State of the Map US I gave a talk on OSM editors and subsequently spent
> a lot of time chewing the fat with the MapBox guys about the future.
>
> The full talk is at http://www.systemeD.net/blog/**index.php?post=24<http://www.systemeD.net/blog/index.php?post=24>but to save you the full tl;dr experience - pretty clearly Flash is on the
> way out in the browser, and we need to have a JavaScript-based solution
> available. This also gives the opportunity to rework the UI, rather than
> doing a straight-across port, now that OSM has an ever-increasing profile
> and the chance to appeal to less technically minded contributors.
>
> So, a couple of months ago I started on a JavaScript port of the Potlatch
> 2 internals, called iD. Happily, this coincides with MapBox winning the
> Knight Foundation grant to work on tools and projects around OSM; it seemed
> sensible to talk. (Probably less sensible for me to have quite so much
> American cider while doing so. Yeeouch, that stuff is strong.)
>
> We're therefore planning to:
>
> - build the core as a pure-JavaScript OSM-editing library, effectively
> reusing the internals of P2, so it can be a common base for future targeted
> editors;
>
> - and to build iD as the first editor on top of that, aiming for ease of
> use but (like P2) the ability to work with any OSM data that exists.
>
> We think we can get an alpha version of the editor ready by the end of the
> year - a real working editor but without bells and whistles. (We're
> sketching a list at https://github.com/systemed/**iD/wiki/Alpha-1<https://github.com/systemed/iD/wiki/Alpha-1>.)
>
> So - come and join in. The code and issues are at
> https://github.com/systemed/iD . It's in a state of flux right now;
> expect it to change rapidly as issues get nailed down.
>
> We'll be talking every Monday on IRC: #osm-dev (on irc.oftc.net as
> usual), 5pm UTC, beginning on Oct 22nd. Or you can ping me (RichardF) or
> Tom MacWright (tmcw) any time we're around.
>
> Really looking forward to the first created_by=iD in the database. Come
> and make it happen. :)
>
> cheers
> Richard
>
>
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