2009/9/29 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com>
> > I'm not sure what the state of the User Experience Working Group is, but > I'd > > be happy to join and help with this, if people think it's a good idea. > > (Personally, I think the scope for OSM to be a provider of linked-data > POIs > > is huge, but I'll admit it's a bit of a departure from making maps). > > A more direct way to do it *now* is to suggest specific improvements > by filing bugs on http://trac.openstreetmap.org under the website > component. > Okay, will do. I'm always a bit shy about submitting improvement ideas as bugs (as it feels like asking someone else to do the work, rather than offering to help), but I guess it helps to keep it all in one place. > I've fixed up a few things about the /browse/* pages like linking to a > new feature so that you can see nodes/ways/relations on the main map. > I noticed that recently - super cool. > I've also added changeset comments (if they exist) to the page. Fixed > some formatting bugs with the node/way/relation list and I have a > pending patch (awaiting the new wiki machine) to link from tags to the > wiki pages. > Linking the tags to the wiki is going to be a great way of joining the two things together much more closely. The other thing I'd like to see is being able to browse sideways from the 'browse' pages, so that it's possible to navigate from, say, a pub, through to other pubs nearby. But I guess this requires some more XAPI-like functionality to be added to the main server? > But if you have any further specific suggestions on what to fix, or a > manually-edited HTML mock up on how things should look please submit > those suggestions. Thanks, will do so. Some ideas I had already are: * removing the forward/back links to the way numbered one above and one below (as these are essentially just random links) * displaying the address in a more address-like style, perhaps also marked up with the hCard microformat. * showing the date that the node/way/relation was first created (rather than just date of the last changeset). * making wikipedia=* and website=* links more prominent, possibly with icons. * removing the created_by=* tag and displaying that less prominently, perhaps with a link to the Potlatch/JOSM/etc pages on the wiki. * adding some stats like "total length" (for open ways) or "area size" (for closed ways). > One thing that might be useful to flickr is > improving the main map screen so that when you look at this: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?way=30089216 > > There's an optional Google Maps-like sidebar telling you what you're > looking at with a link back to the /browse/* page. > Yeah, that'd be really good too. In fact, I think it could be made easier to navigate from the 'Data' overlay to the /browse/* pages - the "details" link really isn't obvious! Frankie -- Frankie Roberto Experience Designer, Rattle 0114 2706977 http://www.rattlecentral.com
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