[openstreetmap-website] Filterable Map Notes (#486)

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Thu Oct 17 05:05:21 UTC 2013


Indeed filtering of map notes doesn't have to occur on the website as long as you are just reducing existing data, and so perhaps adding the filtering capacity to the API isn't all that useful. However, those filtering capacities do make notes potentially much more usable and given that we do want people to use the notes functionality on osm.org. Adding this functionality to the website UI is reasonably important.

The second part is information that is currently not available and thus obviously also not available to third party sites. The main example is the "created_by" tag to mark what application submitted the note. But there are other aspects like e.g. categorisation of notes (for example "needs ground survey", "suitable for armchair mapping", "todo note to oneself" or the likes). For this the system needs to be extended to actually collect and provide this information.

Here we will first need a consensus of what information is important and should be included in the database and how to best represent it. So hopefully we can do some brain storming together to figure that out.

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