[OSM-talk] Very Happy - Looking forward

Matt Williams lists at milliams.com
Mon Jul 23 17:14:34 BST 2012


On 23 July 2012 16:54, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sören Gasch said:
>>> * Improve ease of editing (like wheelmap, a simple editor that lets
>>> you amend JUST the tags - name, opening hoursm, url etc..).
>>There will be the "Amenity Editor" which kind of does what you propose.
>>
>>See
>>- http://ae.osmsurround.org/
>>- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Amenity_Editor
>
>
> and Roland Olbricht said:
>>> * Make it easy to users to view the data (eg clicking a node/way could
>>> bring up data about it - the url and opening hours tags are not visible
>>> in
>>> map renders but is very useful to many end users)
>>
>>There is already a prototype that does show all data
>>http://overpass-api.de/open_layers_popup.html
>>
>
>
> Wow these both look really good. The editor would really decrease the
> barrier to entry (e.g. shop owners could easily add their opening hours).
> What's holding this project back from being more prominently placed on the
> map front page / How can I help?

Also, there's also the newer iD (http://www.geowiki.com/,
http://www.geowiki.com/iD/) which is aiming to be a simple tag and POI
editor. It's not fully working yet but I imagine that development will
happen fast.

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Matt Williams
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