[talk-au] NearMap support for OSM editing

[Ben Last]

On 9 June 2010 09:13, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

> I suspect this approach will prove controversial. Is there really no
> way you can integrate user registrations?
>
There's no convenient way.  We could bounce a user off to the OSM site to
register, but this is complex because they then need to confirm an email,
and after the signup there (appears to be) no convenient way to bring them
back to our site. We'd then have to ask them to enter their OSM username and
password since we can't easily tell whether they are registered/logged in
with OSM (the OSM login cookies are for the openstreetmap.org domain).  In
short, the OSM site doesn't appear to have been designed with the intention
of supporting login integration with external services.
There are ways around many of the issues, but we'd end up doing a fair
amount of work to integrate closely with an external site that may then
change the way it works, breaking the flow for our users.

I do like the idea of tagging addresses though. In particular, it
> would be great if your system made it easy to tag corner addresses,
> and interpolate between them (using the current interpolation scheme -
> which I'm not very familiar with).
>
Yep; getting numbers for corners of blocks is a pretty effective way to
boost geocoding accuracy with minimal data.  Though it works better in a
US-style block system than in, say, rural areas of the UK :)


> One issue that occurs with allowing street name changes is that you
> may need to allow users to split streets. Also, you may want to point
> out to them that one (previously unnamed) street/way runs into another
> unnamed street/way.

Splitting streets may fall into the area where the edit gets more complex
than we want to support (at least for the first release).  But yes, there is
an issue there, depending on how farsighted the person was who originally
traced the street :)

Cheers
b

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Ben Last
Development Manager (HyperWeb)
NearMap Pty Ltd
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