[OSM-talk] Suggestion more complete mapping verifactiion

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 9/18/07, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Yes. I'd perhaps try and have the markers appear only at the zoom
> level that was used when putting them in, otherwise I think the map
> might become unreadable quickly. If we could have something like that
> and then a JOSM plugin that fetches these markers for an area (and
> maybe also updates the marker database if the mapper says he has
> fixed something), that would open the way for many a couch potato to
> help us ;-)

Yeah. There's also the issue that openlayers wants to load all the
markers at once, which is ok for just a few but doesn't scale,
obviously. I have ideas about loading them the way we do tiles
currently, but that requires some thought.

As for the zoom thing, theoretically the icons could be scaled also
but really it just needs to be handled by zoom. If you zoom far enough
out you should at most see specs where there is something...

> I could even envisage mappers entering such notes (like "forgot to
> put down road name") to alert others (who might know the answer off
> of their heads!) to the problem.

Indeed. This can also be extended to people marking areas saying: I've
done this bit completely. Most of it's a SMOP (Simple Matter Of
Programming) but it takes time...

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/