[openstreetmap-website] Changeset view (#20)

Martijn van Exel m at rtijn.org
Wed Feb 29 01:20:34 GMT 2012


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> And even if they did, they would be likely to see things like this:
>
> http://tomh.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/100
>
> What does that even mean? A blue circle on the map, but there's nothing
> there! Is it deleted? Is it hidden? The "comment" seems to say that it is a
> motorway of some kind. But why a blue circle?

Bear in mind that the basemap is live mapnik, whereas the node is from
the test database, so the two layers have no relation to each other.

But I think it's a bogus argument anyway. Just because it's not for
novice users does not mean that it should not be more user-friendly.

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