[OSM-talk] Osmajax - some improvements

[Nick Whitelegg]

Some improvements to Osmajax, the OpenLayers/AJAX based editor since last 
week.

- You can now login to OSM and it'll tell you immediately if you logged in 
correctly (see discussion over the weekend). 

- Can add POIs as well as ways. 

- Full dialog for setting the type of ways and POIs, the user can choose 
between high level types or full tags.

- Drawing a new way will now automatically break any existing way which its 
nodes intersect with, i.e. you can start drawing a way at any point on an 
existing way and it'll break the way.

It's still orientated towards low density areas (e.g. countryside) so will 
proabably be slow in urban areas, but speed seems to be perfectly acceptable 
in rural areas. Apparently firefox 3 will sort some of these issues.

See http://www.free-map.org.uk/freemap/javascript/osmajax-0.5/

Code available in svn.

Next to do, I want to integrate it into Freemap to try and produce an easy way 
for walkers to contribute GPX traces and upload them to OSM.

Nick