[OSM-talk] Serious consideration of "Newbie Editor"

[Graham Jones]

I have added this as a proposed student project for this year's Google
Summer of Code (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2010).
Please feel free to add to the scope of the project.
I might leave the choice of platform (Flash, Javascript, Java etc.) as a
design choice the student to make it more interesting.

Regards

Graham.

On 28 February 2010 23:07, Randy <rwtnospam-newsgp at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dave Stubbs wrote:
>
> >On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Randy <rwtnospam-newsgp at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >>Dave,
> >>
> >>Do you have any way to estimate the resource requirements for Potlatch 2,
> >>and what they would be if a "simple" switch were added.
> >>
> >
> >Potlatch 2 currently runs on my netbook, and seeing as how I develop
> >it on my netbook it should continue to do so :-)  My netbook is an
> >Atom 1.6GHz 1GB RAM BTW.
> >
> >The SWF size is about 550KB at the moment, most of which will be the
> >flex gui framework and associated bits and pieces, so will be present
> >in any flex based flash app.
> >
> >If you do a break down of where the code is at the moment:
> >  - about 20 classes for tag editing (the "simple" user stuff)
> >  - about 10 classes for vector editing
> >  - about 20 classes for handling OSM objects, and talking to the API 0.6
> >  - about 25 classes for rendering data (halcyon)
> >
> >Simple mode basically takes out the vector editing stuff.
> >
> >You can obviously make something a lot lighter if you weren't using
> >flex. Well, startup bandwidth lighter at least.
> >
> >Dave
> >
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> Thanks, Dave. I'm sure others with more experience than I can make a
> better independent assessment, but it doesn't look particularly daunting
> to me, as far as penalizing the early user.
>
> Granted, if it's doable (and widely supported), a super simple JS2 editor
> might be lighter in startup. But, as someone else mentioned earlier, it's
> probably worth some sacrifice to keep the UI between simple and powerful
> as similar as possible.
> --
> Randy
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Hartlepool, UK
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