[OSM-talk] Openstreetbugs source code

[Steve Hill]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Matthias Julius wrote:

>> Yes it's useful, but I don't see how this addresses the problems of
>> OSB being closed. Is this not a third party implementation of the OSB
>> JS interface which is not running on the main OSB site, and is the OSB
>> bug DB not still closed with no dumps available?
>
> But now, since the code is available, someone could set it up as
> bugs.openstreetmap.org or so and integrate it with the OSM main site.

I find OSB very useful (especially with the JOSM plugin), but I'd be 
really interested to know what the rationale is behind having a separate 
database rather than storing the bugs as nodes in OSM itself?

  - Steve
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