[OSM-talk] OpenLayers May Dump in Ka-Map/OpenLayers

[Tom Carden]

On 03/07/06, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at crschmidt.net> wrote:
>
> After putting in an afternoon of work on it, I changed my mind. Editing
> is now available on *segments only*. Additionally, I've processed the
> linear ways out of the planet.osm file from May, and those are now
> displayed (as a seperate layer, also queryable) on the map.
>

How are you handling authentication?  Or will all these edits now be
logged as being made by you?  (You might not think this matters
because user ids aren't exposed right now, but consider how we might
best deal with vandalism in the future for instance).

<snip>
> Try doing that with the applet, and I bet you'll find it takes a lot
> longer, and a lot more experience to get there.
>
> This can't be the *only* editing interface for OSM obviously -- there's
> no drawing, for one, and that's a biggy.  But right now there are
> hundreds of thousands of untagged segments. Getting more than a few
> elite users to edit this data would be a useful step forward, I think.
>

Yes, no need to trash the applet to justify this, it's definitely
interesting - it's similar to things Jo was trying last year and that
Nick has tried out with his walking maps... does somebody want to work
along these lines for openstreetmap.org where issues like
authentication are a lot easier to deal with?

Tom.