[OSM-talk] The future of bugs in OSM

[SteveC]

On 2 Jul 2009, at 09:44, Dair Grant wrote:

> Frederik Ramm 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.
>
> Is the bugs database really so different in character to the map  
> database
> though? Provided there was a planet-style dump of the bug database,  
> anyone
> wishing to build an external system could easily do so.

good point

> It's true that lat/lon/text wouldn't be sufficient for all bugs, but  
> how
> many would that model work for - 75% or more?

see the tags idea

> Most bugs are either for a specific location (name is wrong, street is
> missing, etc), or a fairly well defined area (all the footpaths in  
> this park
> need doing, there's a place=hamlet|village|etc node but there's no  
> ways
> within 5km of it).
>
> There are meta-bugs too (are imported political boundaries really in  
> the
> correct place, is a blank area of the map really blank or just  
> unmapped?),
> but how best to track them will depend on what they are (so you  
> might as
> well collect a few examples and look for patterns first).
>
>
> Worst-case you could simply use a lat/lon/text entry as a link to some
> external tracker until such time as its model could be supported  
> (either
> directly, or by better integration with external trackers - although  
> I would
> hope the former).
>
> But however it works behind the scenes, it gives you one place that  
> bug
> reporting/visualisation can coalesce around - you go to www.* to see  
> the
> map, wiki.* to see the wiki, and bugs.* for bugs.

these are all good points, I say lets build the simple bits and iterate.

>
>
> -dair
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Best

Steve