[OSM-talk] Recent Edits
Lambertus
osm at na1400.info
Mon Jan 28 09:11:13 GMT 2008
Martijn van Exel 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 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.
>
Well I've been thinking about this functionality too with an addition
where mappers can 'register' a certain area and get notification when
someone places a marker within that area, supported by some ticket
functionality like Trac.
This is probably somewhere on the todo list of several people (certainly
mine, but still some time away). I hope this functionality will be
available soon as it drastically reduces the threshold to participate.
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