[OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

[SteveC]

On Feb 21, 2010, at 1:08 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:

> On 21/02/10 07:38, SteveC wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 20, 2010, at 11:20 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> 
>>> SteveC wrote:
>>>> Wrong. Map bugs. Did you read my post Fred ? :-)
>>> 
>>> So you meant to integrate uservoice.com instead of integrating openstreetbugs? But can their system tie notes to map locations?
>> 
>> Well I'll go further.
>> 
>> openstreetbugs is basically there but has a crappy UI. It needs to be
>> 
>> 1) click 'feedback' or 'problem'
>> 2) enter problem
>> 3) click ok
>> 
>> the extra step of clicking where the problem is should not happen, we should get that from the bbox or center point plus zoom. So with some changes I think we can integrate OSB and expose it front and center to help fix up the bugs.
> 
> I have been trying for several years now to get somebody to do a properly integrated version of openstreetbugs and obviously things
> like defaulting based on the current map view would be a perfectly sensible thing for such a tool to do.

Go to oDesk.com and pay someone to do it? That's what I did. I think the community is great at many things, but for those you spend years on not convincing anybody, you can just pay them.

> Like Fred I'm really not sure about using an external site like this in much the same way that I've resisted integrating an external tool like openstreetbugs into the main site. I will go and have a look at uservoice now though, assuming that it's back up...

I don't care if it's uservoice or whatever. The thing about uservoice is though that it's working today and they have free plans for open source projects. If there's a better solution, lets use it.

Yours &c.

Steve