[OSM-talk] OsmNote - system for keeping and sharing notes on your OSM surveying

[Dan Karran]

Nick,

On 12/2/06, Nick Whitelegg <nick150971 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Would like to announce the first prototype version of OsmNote - a system for
> keeping notes on your surveying, for later use by yourself and others. (For
> example, after surveying you could remind yourself that there are still a
> load of cul-de-sacs in an area which need doing)

Nice idea

[snip]

> Also the search will only work in the UK at present, and it's only tested on
> Firefox (it definitely won't work in IE)

Seems to work fine in Safari too (still gives a debugging popup of the
SQL statement though)

> It's available at
> http://www.free-map.org.uk/osmnote/
>
> It stores the notes as a georss feed, which can take a bbox parameter:
> http://www.free-map.org.uk/osmnote/georss.php

How do I specify the bounding box? After adding a point in the Isle of
Man (Latitude: 54.2785 Longitude: -4.4748) I tried loading
http://www.free-map.org.uk/osmnote/georss.php?BBOX=54,-5,55,-4
but it didn't have any articles in...

> Ideas for further development welcome. One possibility is to be able to add
> the notes through JOSM, as then you could do it at the same time as you are
> creating new ways.

Would it make sense to store these as nodes in the OSM database, and
subscribe to nodes for your map that are tagged with 'user_note' or
something? Then they'd be available to people using JOSM and other
editors, and would be available in different interfaces like OsmNote
too. Though to be able to do that it'd need to be possible to
subscribe to items in the main OSM database that were tagged with a
certain key (+value).

[snip for talk]


Cheers,
Dan

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Dan Karran
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