[OSM-talk] JOSM Name Finder Plugin

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> This looks like a nice integration. It's not limited to places, of  
> course:
> you can type in e.g. 'Bings Road, Whalley Bridge' to get a specific  
> street,
> or 'Ely Golf Club, Ely'. Maybe the prompt could sugest this.
>
> If I hit Enter after entering the search string (which is a natural  
> thing to
> do), you get 'Error while parsing: Unknown version: null': Enter  
> doesn't
> press the search button as it probably should. You get the same if  
> you just
> press OK without doing a search.

I left some things deliberately untidy hoping that somebody would  
pick it up and improve it ;-) The one-line tooltip isn't great  
either, and a double click on an entry could submit the download  
dialog directly, and entries could be arranged in a (perhaps  
sortable?) table showing the "info" field and lat/lon, as well as the  
nearest place, and of course the dialog should not lose its contents  
between calls, and maybe the search box should have a dropdown or  
autocomplete for your most recent searches, and the server used for  
name lookups should be configurable, and the bounding box computed  
from lat/lon and zoom should automatically be shrunk if it exceeds  
0.25 square degrees (server won't allow more), and lastly it doesn't  
look too pretty... so there's a lot of work for someone who wants to  
take this over... I was just intending to show the way here ;)

Bye
Frederik

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