[OSM-talk] Simple editing (was: Announcing name searches for OSM)

David Earl david at frankieandshadow.com
Tue May 8 12:05:45 BST 2007


> It would also be very handy if people could insert new nodes for
> places. You click on the point, select the type of node from a
> categorised list, enter the name, web site and other relevant
> info, and submit. I can see a lot of people being happy to add
> things like post boxes, night clubs, ATMs, post codes (like the
> NPE site) etc. but being a bit put off by Potlach (lovely as it
> is). Rather than having to search for the exact item (as you
> suggest) it would also mean you could browse the map, select
> existing items and edit their tags.

Perhaps, but that's a rather different application, because it starts with a
map.

David





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