[HOT] Building Counter App

[Kate Chapman]

Hi Yohan,

This is great. I'm wondering if it makes sense to switch it to use the
Overpass API, that way we wouldn't run into the same API restrictions.

-Kate

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:02 AM, Yohan Boniface <yohanboniface at free.fr> wrote:
> Well, being on "take a break day", after a discussion with Tim
> (https://github.com/timlinux/osm-reporter/issues/2), I've quickly
> implemented a proof of concept of the dynamic view: so you can now browse
> the map and click on the control on the top-right of the map to get the
> stats for the current view.
> I've updated http://reporter.fluv.io to make it testable.
> With the same warnings than before: it's a dev server, so not every time up,
> and only small areas will work.
>
> Yohan
>
>
> On 12/09/2012 06:02 PM, Yohan Boniface wrote:
>>
>> Hi Kate (and all :) ),
>>
>> Being at bed with a throat infection, I had some time to have a look. ;)
>> Regarding your request, I see two problems:
>> - the code fetch the data from the API (which has size limitations)
>> - it parses the whole DOM on the fly to calculate the users list
>> So, making a reporter site for all the Indonesia sounds not trivial in
>> my point of view. And certainly too much time consumer in regard of my
>> actual availability (being very busy on "youmap project" -
>> http://youmap.fluv.io/).
>> Anyway, I have quickly setted an instance, and hacked it to be able to
>> pass a bbox parameter, so you can play with it (with small areas ;) ).
>> For example:
>> http://reporter.fluv.io/?bbox=106.78334,-6.15001,106.81038,-6.09046
>>
>> Note that this server is a dev server, so not very powerful, and
>> sometimes down for works.
>>
>> If the bbox mode seems useful, it will not take that much time for me to
>> clean my hack and make a pull request to Tim. Also, displaying the map
>> directly instead of using an iframe could allow to add an option for
>> calculating the bbox from the current map view.
>>
>> Yohan
>>
>>
>> On 12/09/2012 12:17 PM, Yohan Boniface wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Kate,
>>>
>>> I can have a look these days.
>>> I can set up on my servers, and if we find the tool useful and want to
>>> keep it for long, then move it on a more official server.
>>>
>>> Yohan
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/09/2012 11:52 AM, Kate Chapman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Anyone interested in setting up this building counter app for Indonesia?
>>>>
>>>> Blog post about it here:
>>>> http://linfiniti.com/2012/12/osm-building-count-stats/
>>>> Code here: https://github.com/timlinux/osm-reporter
>>>>
>>>> Let me know. I can find some server space as well.
>>>>
>>>> -Kate
>>>>
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