[OSM-talk] web page element browsing history regression

[John Sturdy]

To me, the current version certainly seems like a step back; I
presumed either it was done to meet some other requirements, or I had
just stupidly missed finding how to do what I wanted, so I didn't say
anything at the time.  In particular, ISTR it being much easier on the
previous version to go from looking at your edit history, to having a
particular changeset displayed centred in the slippy map and zoomed to
fit.  When mapping, I often want to come back to wherever I was last
editing, and although it doesn't take that long to find something by
panning and zooming manually, it was nice to have it done
automatically.

I've just looked a bit further at this, and found that while the link
from a mapper's edit history no longer brings the slippy map to the
right place, the link from a friend's "most recent edit" on my profile
page does take me there.  The puzzling bit is that the two links are
the same!

__John


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
> <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's been some time now that the new web page is deployed, and despite the overall improvement, the regression for object browsing (tiny part of the screen is actually useful, map occupies most of the screen but is really not needed or could be much smaller at least, the current presentation style leads to scrolling requirement for any slightly more complex object) is still bothering the users. Also dates and times are not shown any more, instead there is approximated text like "almost 6 years ago", "12 months ago" etc.
>
> I don't know if I'm the only one have this issue : browsing from a
> changeset to one of the list objects (way or node) does not update the
> map view (firefox). So I have to zoom and move the map manually making
> this web object browsing hard to use. This was not the case in the
> past.
>
> +1 for the dates. Maybe something "nice" on the screen but not
> something required by people using it. I'm just asking myself if the
> devs really identified our needs with this object browser. The
> previous version was maybe not so "nice" but really useful. Now we
> have to move the mouse on each entry to see the date details
> (especially when all of the history show you the same text...). Is it
> an improvement ?
>
>> I understand that this is an open source project with volunteer contributions, but that part actually WAS already functional for years. Would it be possible to get the old browsing and history pages back, at least until someone comes up with an improvement?
>
> Maybe not a rollback but clearly, the current version is a downgrade
> compared to what we had before (at least for those people who are
> really taking a close look in data) and it's not evolving since then.
>
> Pieren
>
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