[OSM-talk] Proposal for a map-bug tracker (Openstreetbugs)

[Xav]

Christoph Böhme a écrit :
> Would it be possible to reuse and extend the client-side code from 
> osb for a web-based client-side interface?

If it is a moral question : of course.
If it is a technical question : 50% of the code has to be rewriten.

>So, I do not think bug reporters will ever feel the desire
> add tags to their bug reports.

You're right.
No bug reporter will feel the desire to add new tags.
But when I proposed the use of tags, I thought about the 
clients-developper :

  - I want the simplier interface with only lat/lon/date, two bug 
states, and a text. I do not want a crapy interface with 30 text areas 
and 60 combo-boxes

  - Someone will desire to add a zoom level for each bug, the email of 
the authors, and three bug states

  - Someone else will want a reference to the OSM data, the diameter of 
the area that the bug describes, the age of the mother of the author, etc.

The tag=value schema does all this.
And, as the OSM end-user clients (like Mapnik, T at H, routing softwares), 
there are only small pieces of the data that are rendered depending of 
the choice of the rendered.


>> The server side already exists : it's basically OSM database without 
>> ways, with a guest account, and accepting long string values (the
>> text users could add).
> 
> That is really attractive. The only problems I can see here (apart from
> that we still should try to define a  bug report format) are that
> annotations to a bug report like comments, images and attachments
> cannot be stored in the osm database (as far as I know).

I do not think that it would be the best idea to put images in the 
database besides it is technically possible with a classical database ; 
I do not know about OSM database. An URL to a solid file seems to me 
much more efficient.

> and we'd lose out on all the fun of documenting / defining the tags
> on the wiki :-P

And maybe, with all this complexity, we will have a new service to trac 
the inconsistencies in OpenStreetBugs' bugs.
Welcome OpenStreetBugsBugs.

Xav