[OSM-talk] The future of bugs in OSM

Adam Schreiber sadam at clemson.edu
Wed Jul 1 21:12:47 BST 2009


On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Nic Roets<nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:22 PM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>>
>> You go to http://bugs.openstreetmap.org/
>>
>> There's a big map of bugs which looks similar to OSB. It doesn't know
>> who you are and drops you in to beginner mode which shows bugs that
>
> I like this. If it's idiot proof and it does not slow the web browser down,
> it can even go onto http://openstreetmap.org/
> And if the user indicates that he just wants to add a PoI, redirect him to
> http://ae.osmsurround.org/ so that he can add it directly to the database.

Using Mapnik tiles as an indicator of what's in the database could
lead to a lot of unnecessary bugs or points of interest being added.
For instance, in downtown Clemson, SC [1], the Subway has been mapped,
but doesn't appear on the map because of the labling of T.D.'s.  One
shouldn't always have to be removing duplicate bugs/POI.  Before the
interface adds a POI to the database, perhaps it should query a
bounding box around the reported area and see if there's a similarly
placed node that they'd like to edit the position of or tagging
instead of creating a new node.

Cheers,

Adam

[1] http://ae.osmsurround.org/?zoom=18&lat=34.68343&lon=-82.83641&layers=BTT




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