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[Martijn van Exel]

Well, I think the tickets display and ticket registering is important  
to take participation a step further. You don't want just anyone going  
about making modifications in JOSM or even Potlatch, you need at least  
some idea of the data model and metadata for that. Basically,  
contributing to the map is now limited to people willing to learn to  
use JOSM or Potlatch.

I think it would be a good idea to discuss this flagging possibility  
for 'the rest of us'. This would open up collaboration possibilities  
for location based platforms. For example Bliin[1], a location based  
social network. They already use OSM data for their mobile client. I  
met with them last week and they are very enthusiastic about OSM and  
really want to 'return the favor'. Just have their users upload traces  
to OSM wouldn't be of much use in itself. But if they would implement  
a 'OSM flagging' functionality in their client, their users would be  
able to contribute to OSM. They could flag for example a limited  
number of categories: street layout change, new street, new POI  
(again, limited number of categories), maybe a few more.

This is just one example of possible contributions by OSM data users  
who are now only passive. I think this is something to consider and  
discuss.

[1] http://www.bliin.com/
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Op 28 jan 2008, om 10:33 heeft Tom Hughes het volgende geschreven:

> In message <2fc2c5f10801280117p522013a2u1d83f4c9425f3ba7 at mail.gmail.com 
> >
>       Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 28, 2008 9:46 AM, Martijn van Exel <mvexel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> That's very nice! I'm looking foorward to this.
>>>
>>> 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 made a start here:
>> http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~kleptog/bugs.html
>> and there's another prototype around by some others. What needs to be
>> finished is the backend storage, and, most importantly you need a way
>> to display the resulting notes. OpenLayers doesn't currently have a
>> layer that is going to handle thousands of such notes on the map.  
>> What
>> you need is something like:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenLayers_Dynamic_POI
>
> Displaying the tickets in OL in a relatively low priority thing
> though so I wouldn't worry too much (though I think I could do
> it anyway).
>
> I think the data model is the thing that really needs fixing down
> properly - the rest is mostly pretty simple rails stuff.
>
> Tom
>
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