Re: [Talk-us] Take another look at notes!

2013-06-01 Thread Greg Troxel
Thanks for pointing out the craigslist/notes connection. A minor UI comment: I added a note about something that I know needs fixing, just to see what it was like. I didn't realize that one had to move the marker before clicking 'add', and the text box started out over the area where the

Re: [Talk-us] Take another look at notes!

2013-06-01 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.uswrote: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote: ok, i found report a problem on the map view for housing units in an area. i'll have to go find a map problem and report it via the GUI so

Re: [Talk-us] Take another look at notes!

2013-06-01 Thread Ben Miller
It's probably worth pointing out that the tiles Craigslist is using are pretty out of date. For example, they don't show the buildings in Chicago that were imported a couple of months ago. Hopefully Craigslist users won't get too frustrated when the problems they point out don't appear to be fixed

Re: [Talk-us] Take another look at notes!

2013-06-01 Thread Jason Remillard
Hi, Since we are talking about the new notes feature. I think it is great, how about showing the notes by default on main OSM page? Thanks Jason. On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 5/31/13 6:30 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 5/31/13 2:57 PM, Alex

Re: [Talk-us] Take another look at notes!

2013-05-31 Thread Alex Barth
Craigslist had added a feature to their OSM powered maps to submit map problems back to OSM Have you found that feature actually on craigslist? On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: As I'm sure a lot of you are aware, osm.org has a new notes [1] feature

Re: [Talk-us] Take another look at notes!

2013-05-31 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Craigslist had added a feature to their OSM powered maps to submit map problems back to OSM Have you found that feature actually on craigslist? It's in the process of posting a housing ad. When you place the marker for

Re: [Talk-us] Take another look at notes!

2013-05-31 Thread Richard Welty
On 5/31/13 2:57 PM, Alex Barth wrote: Craigslist had added a feature to their OSM powered maps to submit map problems back to OSM Have you found that feature actually on craigslist? i'd going to go take a look at the UI if i can find it. there is a note on the wiki page for the new feature:

Re: [Talk-us] Take another look at notes!

2013-05-31 Thread Ian Dees
On May 31, 2013 5:52 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 5/31/13 6:30 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 5/31/13 2:57 PM, Alex Barth wrote: Craigslist had added a feature to their OSM powered maps to submit map problems back to OSM Have you found that feature actually on

Re: [Talk-us] Take another look at notes!

2013-05-31 Thread Clifford Snow
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote: ok, i found report a problem on the map view for housing units in an area. i'll have to go find a map problem and report it via the GUI so i can see the full cycle. I only found two notes for the Greater Seattle

[Talk-us] Take another look at notes!

2013-05-30 Thread Toby Murray
As I'm sure a lot of you are aware, osm.org has a new notes [1] feature (new as of a month ago) that allows anonymous users to submit random comments about our maps. Some of them will of course be unhelpful or silly but there have been many useful ones submitted since the feature went live. We