[OSM-talk] Examine nodes in new osm.org design fail

NopMap ekkehart at gmx.de
Sun Dec 8 17:26:21 UTC 2013


Hi!

I just tried to examine the history of a well tagged node (273510436) with
the new design for the first time. I was just trying to find out the reason
for some weird naming.

I was really shocked to see that all the tag information is squeezed in into
the narrow sidebar now while most of the screen is covered by the huge map -
which is utterly useless for analyzing tags and history.

The information for the present state of the node is very hard to read in
that narrow table with plenty of unnecessary line wraps.

Looking for the history ("Chronik" in German") I first clicked on the button
labelled "Chronik" conveniently located just above the data. Which of course
kicked me out of it altogether as this is the Changeset list, just waiting
to be misunderstood. The real history is hidden at the very bottom of the
loooong table.

Finding it didn't make me any happier. To look at the squeezed history you
need to scroll down more than 60 pages! (yes, sixty pages). Finding and
reading stuff is hard, comparing and analyzing things is a royal pain.

I did not find any way to get rid of the map or extend the sidebar for a
proper and comprehensible look at the data.

What was wrong with the old node/tag/history pages? The at least gave you
more than half the width of the screen to examine the data you are
interested in.

I don't like the new design, but does not make much sense to argue over
something which is mostly a matter of taste. But this is a major regression
in usability.

But the current "presentation" of the histories is a disaster. It might look
nice for very short tag lists, but it is totally unusable for any serious
work or analysis. It desperately needs a way to extend the sidebar to full
screen - or just a way to bring back the old pages.

bye, Nop






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