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David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to say how useful I've found the new data layer recently. I
> don't know who did this (Tom?) but well done and thank you! I
> particularly like the ability to see what's changed in the History
> Detail page.
Chris Schmidt wrote it actually, so I can't claim the credit for it.
> It would be really useful if itoworld's ways were linked to it as more
> than one of us has suggested on the wiki page for osm mapper.
I think I was the first person to suggest that ;-)
> Is there a reason why, when looking at an object in the data layer, the
> history summary can't be displayed straight away rather than via another
> link, 'show history'. The space is there unused. I guess it is another
> database access, but that doesn't mean it also needs to be a user
> interface gesture. If you're not interested in it, well I guess you just
> don't read it, but if you are, you always need a second click.
Mostly because nobody has written code to do it.
> The history dates would be a little easier to read if the 'T' in the
> data/time string were replaced with a space.
What T would that be? I assume you're seeing dates in raw ISO format
but I'm certainly not. When I look at a history page like:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/20169321/history
the dates look like:
Fri Aug 08 10:37:58 +0100 2008
> Could the user names in the history summary be linked to the relevant
> user pages?
Again, it is in my browser...
> How about the number of objects before you get the "more than 100
> objects" message be configurable based on user logged in (if any) -
> presumably up to some maximum that won't overload the server, but the
> API does that anyway IIRC. My browser is apparently quite comfortable
> with many hundreds of objects - I just did the whole of Ely with more
> than 1,000 objects at zoom 14 and there was no perceptible performance
> problem (though some of the features are a little small to select at
> that scale).
That limit is nothing to do with the server, it's to do with the
browser - most browsers can't cope with large numbers. Firefox 3 does
seem to manage rather more though I agree.
Tom
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