[OSM-talk] OpenStreetBugs - open or not?

[Christoph Böhme]

Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> schrieb:
> An API would be cool of course but as OSM itself 
> proves, if you offer dumps then others can do the API ;-)

There is an openstreetbug-plugin for josm. It works by parsing the
javascript responses from the openstreetbugs-website. So, there is
already some kind of API which makes it possible to use openstreetbugs
in other application.

I would be happy to contribute to a redevelopment of openstreetbugs. A
while ago I started to use it extensively mostly for notes to myself and
to-do items. By using osb in these new ways, I began to miss a number
of features like assigning a bug to someone, keeping old bugs for
reference (especially if they turned out to be wrong), and having
different types or importances of bugs. I would also love to see an
"Report Bug" tab next to the edit tab on openstreetmap.org.

Cheers,
Christoph