[OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-nl] Recent Edits

[Patrick Weber]

Martijn van Oosterhout 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
>
> Which will only fetch the stuff that's in your area, but that code is
> a complete hack and there are better ways of doing it, it just hasn't
> been written yet.
>
> Have a nice day,
>   
I am not shure that I fully understand the usefulness of such a system. 
As I understand it, it would enable users to highlight something 
missing, or not right, on the slippymap and underlying OSM Data. I had a 
look at the proposed system prototype. Now, if someone goes to the 
trouble of browsing the slippymap, sees a problem, and then starts 
filling out the report form (which is quite verbose), why not help that 
user correct the problem himself? We can guide them on how to add/change 
a POI, or draw a new road?

Just reporting the problem, and then hoping someone else goes back and 
fixes it seems unproductive. I still think of OSM as a Wiki, and anyone 
should be encouraged to make changes. I suspect that very often, we will 
have reports saying, "hey the street I live in is missing here" , and 
then you still need to somehow add that road, be it through local 
knowledge (which the original report written most probably has, and is 
gone if he believes that it will get sorted if he reports it, and that 
is less than certain) and/or external datasources (tracklogs, yahoo 
image layer , ... ).

In analogy of a Wiki, we could implement "talk" pages for geographic 
areas, where one can then discuss for example the short comings of the 
current OSM data revision, ideological discussions about a place name 
and so on... That's where I see the benefit of such a "notes/tracs" 
system, not in simply highlighting problems.

Cheers
Patrick

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