[OSM-talk] N00b experiences

[Christoph Eckert]

Hi Nick,


thanks for joining the discussion.

> What do you mean by 'very lame' - slow? TBH I'm surprised as Nick
> Hill's recent database query speed improvements have made it very
> quick for me -

Well, there's less content for my city yet, so I tried to use the 
landsat. It's in fact lame, but today I learned that I will not need it 
as soon I have some data up as orientation points. This means: Don't 
care about the landsat feature, there are surely more important 
things :) .

> so quick in fact, one can almost use it as a realtime 
> OSM browser (on both Linux and Windows) though I wouldn't recommend
> using it solely for this purpose - it'll hit the database more than
> is needed.

I still dream of an route planner for bicycle tours. If it could do this 
one day, I wouldn't complain :) .

> You can also do "Download OSM from net" - this will download all OSM
> data in the currently viewed area. If tiled download is too slow I'd
> recommend this - it will also be slow at first but once you have the
> data, no more downloads are needed.

Yep, works for me. I think it's OK to wait a bit until the data gets 
displayed, but some user feedback would be great (e.g. a progress bar 
embedded in the status bar).

> Whichever you choose, you do ideally need to work with live OSM data
> present, otherwise you might create segments and ways which are
> already there.

True.

[...]

> Yes, osmeditor2 does need improvements, particularly in the usability
> area and yes, I would welcome anyone wanting to help me hack on it as
> I have only a certain amount of spare time. I'm aiming to do some
> osmeditor2 work before the end of this month but am also involved in
> coding other OSM-related software so any help would be welcome.

I could do some smaller things, but as I'm a hobbyist when it comes to 
hacking, I guess you'd reject my code ;-))) .


Anyway, thanks for your comments and all the efforts you put in 
osmeditor!



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