[OSM-talk] web page element browsing history regression

Christian Quest cquest at openstreetmap.fr
Tue Aug 26 18:11:53 UTC 2014


2014-08-26 12:00 GMT+02:00 Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com>:

> 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


+1 with all the above.

Map is not useful when browsing an object history
Full dates are really missing

I also miss another thing on the changesets views... it used to be possible
to load the changeset bbox to edit it, but not anymore.

-- 
Christian Quest - OpenStreetMap France
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