Thanks everyone who made suggestions in this process, and previously, and to
Bryan, Andrew, and Blake for helping triage the issues. Wanted to share where
we've ended up. Lots in store to improve experience of iD for HOT, and OSM in
general.
There's been lots of ideas on building editing. The biggest news is that a
specialized building mode is nearing completion. Already deployed, building
default tag (building=yes) has moved to the top of the list. An installation of
iD has been installed for HOT to start working on customizing presets. Get in
touch with the Tech WG if you want to experiment, and think about next steps.
Other ideas which have already been released: imagery offset by parameter, easy
switching between imagery sources, and visual reminder to save after a large
number of edits.
And plenty more is in the works, either in development or still being scoped
out. GitHub issues are the best way to keep track of work in progress. Look out
for announcements on this list, and elsewhere, when new versions of iD are
released.
Thanks again!Mikel
* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
On Friday, May 6, 2016 1:14 PM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
<blake.girar...@hotosm.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone!
HOT is putting together a list of possible improvements or changes to
the default OSM web editor iD that might help improve and ease typical
HOT and Missing Maps editing. As part of that process we would like to
get ideas from the greater HOT and Missing Maps community.
A few things already on the list and near the top of priorities for HOT are:
* A building tool that would make drawing squared up (and round)
buildings just a few clicks (this is close to being done already)
* Customizable presets for typical or special HOT/Missing Maps
projects (already in process, but not close to done)
* Support for switching between two imagery sources (this is close to
being done already)
But we would love to hear more ideas and feedback from you about ways
that iD could better help support HOT and Missing Maps type of mapping
projects as well as very very new OSM mappers that often work on our
projects.
Please let us know things you think iD might be able to do to help new
mappers or mappers that work on HOT / Missing Maps projects.
Also please share your feedback on things you had problems with or saw
other mappers having problems with even if you do not have a
suggestion for how to actually address those issues.
We will then take all those ideas and working with the iD Github
repository issue/feature tracking make some requests to the iD
developer. Yes, I said "developer" as in 1 person who does the bulk
(not all, but most) of the iD maintenance and development, Bryan
Housel. You can imagine he gets pulled in a lot of different
directions by the greater OSM community and he has to balance a lot of
needs and concerns. But Bryan has always been very open to suggestions
and feedback and concerns about the iD editor and that is why it is
the great tool it is.
The iD OSM Web Editor will always first and foremost be a general OSM
editor so some things will just not be possible, but we are quite sure
we can find some things that will help HOT/Missing Maps and be of use
to the greater OSM mapping community as well. Our goal is to identify
those things and help get them implemented through feedback and
testing and maybe even some code contributions if anyone is interested
in doing that.
So as I said, please, if you have a few minutes to share some thoughts
on the iD editor it would be most appreciated.
Cheers,
Blake
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Blake Girardot
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Vice President, HOT Board of Directors
skype: jblakegirardot
HOT Core Team Contact: i...@hotosm.org
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