[OSM-talk] The future of bugs in OSM

[SteveC]

On 1 Jul 2009, at 21:15, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Nic Roets wrote:
>> 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.
>
> That's the point I was trying to make - do not hog all the bugs in  
> one central place and allow users to do only what you have coded;  
> instead open this up so that anybody can hook their app into the  
> user interface to offer functionality.

Yeah - that's what a trivial API would do I think. an OSB-like  
interface would be one way, JOSM could talk to the API too, so could  
potlatch (no Richard, no special weird binary protocols)... and so on.

Best

Steve