I thought that last summer after SOTM, there was some desire to build a system similar to OSB but integrated to the main site and opensource. There was even a talk about having a hack weekend (or day?) in London but unfortunately I can't find any trace of it. It probably disappeared due to the pressing issues linked to API 0.6.
Renaud. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Adam Schreiber <sa...@clemson.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Kærast <kaer...@qvox.org> wrote: >> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:08:05 -0500 >> Adam Schreiber <sa...@clemson.edu> wrote: >> >> >>> I agree, there should be some slight barrier to entry in which the >>> mapper learns about communitty standards for adding data, especially >>> dervied data. The reason Google's MyMaps can allow just about >>> anything is that it isn't added to the main map. Even location edits >>> aren't pushed out until they're reviewed. We need to decide whether >>> or not we will accept the burden of checking all edits made by drive >>> by mappers. >>> >> >> So then can't we do something similar? Add a big button somewhere >> linking to open street bugs, ask people where they are getting their >> information from when they add a bug, possibly give them the ability to >> add in more than a single node? > > We certainly can, but that wasn't what was being discussed. At the > moment IIRC, OpenStreetBugs isn't free software and we can't tightly > integrate with it as much as we might like because of that. > > Cheers, > > Adam > >> Alice >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
