On Thursday 09 July 2009 09:19:16 Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Inge Wallin wrote: > > Note also that the marble team is working on an OSM editing plugin that > > will allow the user to directly edit the OSM data. > > Do they have anything that we can look at, perhaps the spec they're > working to or whatever? Don't get this wrong, I have a lot of respect > for the Marble people, but I'm wary of people without OSM background > doing an editor - they could easily get things just a little bit wrong, > and suddenly we have thousands of contributors who break things.
Well, *I* am among the marble people, and I think I know what I am doing. :-) Point well taken, however. To be honest I'm not involved in the effort in question since my other big OSS project KOffice has taken off very much lately. > I mean if it is just placing some amenities then let them do what they > want, but if the editor has the capacity of editing ways then we ought > to make sure it deals with all the relation stuff that goes with it and > so on... I'll try to keep an eye on it. In the mean time you can check the marble- de...@kde.org mailing list and see if you can find anything worrying. If my impressions are correct, it will take quite some time before it ships. And just possibly I will turn up at SoTM so we can discuss it. I'm actually in the Netherlands right now. -Inge _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk