[OSM-talk] Data layer

[David Earl]

I'd like to say how useful I've found the new data layer recently. I 
don't know who did this (Tom?) but well done and thank you! I 
particularly like the ability to see what's changed in the History 
Detail page.

It would be really useful if itoworld's ways were linked to it as more 
than one of us has suggested on the wiki page for osm mapper.

Is there a reason why, when looking at an object in the data layer, the 
history summary can't be displayed straight away rather than via another 
link, 'show history'. The space is there unused. I guess it is another 
database access, but that doesn't mean it also needs to be a user 
interface gesture. If you're not interested in it, well I guess you just 
don't read it, but if you are, you always need a second click.

The history dates would be a little easier to read if the 'T' in the 
data/time string were replaced with a space.

Could the user names in the history summary be linked to the relevant 
user pages?

How about the number of objects before you get the "more than 100 
objects" message be configurable based on user logged in (if any) - 
presumably up to some maximum that won't overload the server, but the 
API does that anyway IIRC. My browser is apparently quite comfortable 
with many hundreds of objects - I just did the whole of Ely with more 
than 1,000 objects at zoom 14 and there was no perceptible performance 
problem (though some of the features are a little small to select at 
that scale).

David