I agree with Gert on the fact that 'the concept is good for geeks' but
it IS time to create a user interface for the rest of the world. I
have held a few mapping parties, trying to get more hikers, cyclists,
retired folk who love maps, involved with OSM but with the barrier
that OSM isn't user friendly for these folks.
One small example on Potlatch would be the light grey on white
background-- for most, this gives the look of 'inactive'. Also, the
icons are small and it's not 'obvious' that one must click on the car
icon to change it to a person, to a boat (etc.) to change to type of
feature you are tagging.
Yes! There is the wiki and it is very, very helpful... but also
remember that the average attention span is about 2.2 seconds, and if
it isn't seriously simple, we lose people...
There's more from where this comes... and I'd be happy to pass it on
to the OSM community or to the appropriate person! I would love to be
involved with helping build a great 'user friendly' editor for the
'rest of the world' :)
Hurricane
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On Feb 11, 2009, at 5:31 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Gert Gremmen wrote:
The current concept is good for geeks , like you and me,
and people that are really interested. The geeks are on-board
(> 10000). Now it's time to create a user interface for the rest
of the world.
Yes, I agree absolutely (wow, Gert and I agree on something :) ).
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2008-July/010994.html
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2008-November/
031778.html
Kenneth:
does *any* mapping app have an option like 'add road'?
Do you know any mapping application accessible for
everyone having internet ???
Yes on both counts: Google MapMaker.
I personally don't want to write the editing interface that the rest
of the
world uses, and it's slightly insane that somehow I've ended up
doing so
(or, at least, what we have so far) - I mean, I'm not even a
programmer, I'm
a magazine editor with not a whole lot of free time. If future-
Potlatch were
to become _an_ editor available on the main site rather than _the_
editor,
I'd be very happy.
Of course, CloudMade might already be working on this - can anyone
from CM
confirm/otherwise? Would help the rest of us in knowing what to do
next.
cheers
Richard
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