[HOT] The status of iD in HOT contexts/projects

[Banick, Robert]

Indeed. I should note that the imagery is helpful but also consumes a fair
amount of bandwidth. A lovely future mod would be a "no imagery" option.

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On 9/30/13 6:12 PM, "Paul Norman" <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

>> From: Kate Chapman [mailto:kate at maploser.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 3:35 AM
>> Simon Johnson; Tom MacWright
>> Subject: Re: [HOT] The status of iD in HOT contexts/projects
>> 
>> Hi Robert/All,
>> 
>> I wanted to mention we'll be using iD as well for the mapping begin this
>> week in Haiphong. It is currently the only OSM editor with decent
>> Vietnamese support. I'm a bit concerned about conflicts during our
>> training, but intend to use the Tasking Manager to try to avoid that.
>
>Because iD discards all of its data on save and reloads new data from the
>API if you have your users save frequently it will also get them
>refreshing
>their local data frequently, significantly cutting down on conflicts.
>
>If you're in a limited bandwidth situation I wouldn't worry about the
>increased
>bandwidth usage because the map data comes compressed and even when
>loading 
>a dense urban area only about 25% of the bandwidth is used for map data,
>the
>remainder mainly being used by aerial imagery.
>
>