[OSM-talk] OSM mobile editor

[Claudius Henrichs]

*cough* http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mom *cough*

Nick Whitelegg:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Was thinking of a few ideas for an OSM mobile editor which could work as 
> follows:
> 
> * Ability to allow user in the field to add new attributes to a way (e.g. 
> road name if it's missing, or one way) or correct existing attributes. 
> * Allow a user to add new POIs.
> * Could work by either downloading OSM data live from the server (though 
> this would have problem of being relatively expensive for the user) or by 
> the user preloading OSM data to the phone before they go out.
> * Allows user to add annotations to Openstreetbugs (e.g. "missing footpath 
> here")
> * Because the inbuilt GPS in phones is not as good as dedicated devices, 
> it would not be a priority to develop features to allow surveying of new 
> ways. However this could be built in, in preparation for inbuilt mobile 
> GPS improving in the future.
> * Java ME based for maximum cross platform support.
> 
> Does this seem like a good approach?  As can be seen the idea is not so 
> much to allow addition of new ways (due to the inbuilt GPS on phones not 
> being great) but more to add POIs and tags to existing ways. If there's 
> interest and - more crucially - if I have the time (always difficult!) I 
> could start work on it.
> 
> Nick