[OSM-talk] Recent Edits

[Tom Hughes]

In message <DFE5A0C8-B838-4E0C-B00E-B3555CA41096 at gmail.com>
        Martijn van Exel <mvexel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Next step would be to add flagging functionality to the map, to enable  
> the general public to flag locations where something is not right (out  
> of date, misplaced,...)

I don't know about next step. I would like to see that but I don't
see it as related to the changes display stuff (which doesn't really
seem that useful to me).

> I guess this could be engineered using the AJAX classes of OpenLayers,  
> a server side script that puts the markers in the database as  
> specially tagged nodes. Of course, we would need some kind of  
> notifying system to alert the actual OSM contributors of new flags.

Not as nodes no. The plan is to have a separate table for such things.

Tom

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