[Openstreetmap] map walthamstow - CANCELLATION (from me at least)

[Tom Carden]

"Lars Aronsson" wrote:
>
> I don't like to wait.  Waiting assumes that the current applet is
> totally useless, which it isn't (even though it is ugly), and that
> the new one will be perfect from the start, which I doubt.

You're absolutely right.  Thanks for the vote of confidence too ;)

> Since
> I don't help to program the new applet, I continue to use the old
> one.  I'm helping to draw northern Sweden, Helsinki, Tel Aviv,
> Rotterdam, southern England,

How do you know what is a road, and what is not, without knowledge of the 
area being mapped?  This is something which needs more thought, I think. 
When we have satellite/aerial photos and old map scans in the applet it will 
be easier to tell, of course.

> everywhere I can find uploaded tracks.

I've been sketching some ideas for how to work out where activity is 
happening.  Apart from the uploaded GPX feeds, can you think of a way that 
would make sense to report on edits?  By session (e.g. Lars added 53 points 
and 23 segments at dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm)?  By location (e.g. 300 points added 
today within 2 km of lat/lon)?  Images?

> I assume this effort will still be useful when the new
> applet arrives.
>

Yes, any data entered now will still work with the new applet.

Lars - you've used the applet quite a lot - if you have any hints or tips 
you think would be worth putting on the page to help new users, please let 
me know.

New applet ETA: August 1st.  Fingers crossed!

Tom.