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

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:23:56AM +0100, Tom Carden wrote:
> 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).

I'm not about to ask users to stick in a password on some random site 
for the purposes of a demo, so I just used my own. Obviously, the goal
here would be to move it so that this could be set up on OSM.org -- the
code's all published, all it takes is someone with access to some domain
under openstreetmap.org to grab me for an IRC and I'll walk them through
step by step on how to set it up.

> <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?

Er, is there a reason that the existing code couldn't be set up at
OSM.org? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something -- my entire goal was to
set up a proof of concept, get feedback, then move it to the OSM
server...

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer