[OSM-talk] Fwd: Ideas for OSM enhancements

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From: stefan.baebler at gmail.com
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:40:48 +0100
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Ideas for OSM enhancements
To: Nick Whitelegg <nick150971 at yahoo.co.uk>

another idea would be to implement geo-located mapping issue tracking
system, to allow reporting errors in osm data for a specific location.

brief outline:
-main site includes a link "found an error in the map"
-brief explanation how user can fix it by himself
-show existing issues on his last map
-point & click creation of a new mapping issue

osm editors in the area could check the issue in same page or in JOSM
(new "issues" layer), or they could be listed as "issues near you" on
their page, similar to nearby users.

to avoid reimplementing whole issue tracking system (statuses,
notifications, comments...) it might make sense to use trac (osm
already uses one) or bugzilla for the core work, just ad geo-location
to every issue.

other ideas?

greets,
Stefan





On 12/28/07, Nick Whitelegg <nick150971 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> A couple of ideas for enhancements on the OSM site - what do people think?
> If people think they're good ideas I'll try and find time to hack on them,
> though the next month might be a bit difficult.
>
> One would be to do something similar to what I already do on Freemap, namely
> clickable POIs: The user could click on a POI then get a window containing a
> link to its Wikipedia article (if applicable) and its description tag (if it
> has one).
>
> The second (and I think this is already on the "todo" page) would be to make
> a web interface for creating Garmin maps, where a user could select an area
> and then a Garmin .img map of that area would be generated. I can see two
> ways of doing this - implement in JSP, grab OSM data through the API and
> link to existing mkgmap code, or (and much more work) reimplement mkgmap in
> Ruby to link with the rest of the site.
>
>
> Nick
>
>
>
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