[OSM-talk] Web Based Yahoo! Maps/OpenLayers Editor

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:14:26AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     that editor looks quite cool. It feels a lot more responsive than 
> the applet, and more intutive as well (but then I must admit that I have 
> never done a lot of editing with the applet).
> 
> Things I would like (or didn't find/understand):
> 
> 1. I drew an area and tagged it, then hit "upload", and then wanted to 
> get the OSM for it to load into JOSM. I clicked on "OSM" and got an OSM 
> dump of *everything* from the server instead of only seeing my changes. 
> How do I get my changes only?

That was the 'queryable=editor&editor=Your%20Name%20Here' bit:

http://labs.metacarta.com/osm/fs/featureserver.cgi/scribble?format=OSM&queryable=editor&editor=Your%20Name%20Here

However, it looks like you didn't enter a name :) 

> 2. Would it be possible to show existing drawing by others in another color?

I have no way of determining 'others', but showing the data from the WFS
in a different color is possible.

> 3. Trying to find out what is already there in OSM was cumbersome 
> because it required constant switching of layers. Would it somehow be 
> possible to make a bounding box query against the server and display all 
> existing nodes and segments for the area on top of the Yahoo image (if 
> the area is small enough of course)?

When I had time to code (this weekend) I couldn't reliably download
anything from the API, so I didn't get to write this code. It's on my
todo list for next weekend.

> 4. When panning in the satellite view, there was a rather annoying white 
> flash, and the image only came back when I released the mouse button. 
> (Firefox 1.5.0.7 under Linux).

That's the Yahoo! Maps API. Talk to Yahoo :)

> 5. I believe having negative IDs in the OSM dump is not sufficient for 
> JOSM to trigger an upload; you have to have an "action=modify" attribute 
> as well.

It's worked for me. But I can add that.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta