[OSM-talk] Recent Edits - sketching?

[OJW]

On Monday 28 January 2008 15:22:20 Lambertus wrote:
> You have to think outside the OSM box here. This proposal will make it
> extremely easy for non-OSM'ers (non-mappers that is) to signal: "Look,
> there's something wrong". They maybe able to provide the solution, maybe
> not.

One of the things pyroute could do was sketch onto a map, e.g. to draw some 
changes that need to be made, without knowing anything about nodes or tags

it's kind of similar to a paper map, where anyone could draw corrections on it 
without having to "learn" anything.  Maybe something like that would be 
useful for gathering corrections from casual users?

[pyroute can't upload the images to a server yet, but it's trivial code to 
add.  It can already export sketches as GPX files that you can view* in JOSM]

Perhaps a web-based idea could be used (based on potlatch code, with crayons 
instead of tags?), which allows sketching "notes to OSM". Save them onto a 
map image layer, and list the sketching sessions as "recent changes" (like 
tracklog thumbnails in OSM)

Regards,

OJW



* although that exposes a "feature" of JOSM where it draws a line between the 
end of each tracklog and the beginning of the next...