[OSM-talk] Users in your area - on a map?

[John McKerrell]

On 8 May 2007, at 09:13, Tom Chance wrote:

>
> Hullo,
>
> The users in your area feature is definitely a big step forward,  
> but it would be handy if you could see *where* they are. The radius  
> is pretty big, so I can see SteveC, OJW and Firefishy, none of whom  
> are (so far as I know) mapping areas particularly close to East  
> Dulwich in London where I live. Once everyone in London puts their  
> location in, that list is going to be pretty much useless for me  
> AFAICS. If they all showed up as markers in a different colour with  
> a tooltip to say which marker is which person, that would be just  
> grand.
>
> Another feature for the future would be to allow multiple  
> locations. I'm sure other people map in more than one place, I do  
> bits and bobs in East Dulwich and further south in Hackbridge/Sutton.
>
> Ten thumbs up for all the improvements in general, though!

Hi

There was a bug on this page that meant you only saw one of the other  
mappers, the last one, also the radius at the moment is huge (1  
degree), so the marker you could "see" was probably in Scotland. I've  
fixed it now so that all the markers should show up, and you can  
click on the markers to get a small (ugly) popup saying who it is and  
with a link to their OSM page. I don't think we've decided how big/ 
how to set the radius yet so I'm not touching that for now.

My fixes are in SVN ready to be deployed when someone next pushes  
stuff out (I also fixed a small CSS problem on the popup in case  
anyone wonders why site.css was updated).

John