On Feb 11, 2009, at 6:37 AM, Gert Gremmen wrote: > I think he is representative for a lot newbies....
Probably. Been to Wikimapia.org lately? They now have shapes on their POI database. The method for drawing shapes is VERY simple. LIke this: o Click "Add place" o Move the corners of the box. o If you need another vertex, hover near the line and it creates a rubber-band line. Move the cursor far enough away and it stops rubber- banding. o Click on the vertices of the object. Of course, their job is easier because they're letting you trace Google Maps aerial photos. Plus they have no contributor agreement (last time I checked), so they don't own the data they've collected. It's a horrible bodge, but we can definitely take some usability ideas from them. They didn't acquire 9M POIs by being hard to use. -- Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson r...@cloudmade.com - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
