S Omeone wrote: > OpenStreetMap has of cause something similar with OpenStreetBugs > (which Google may well have used as inspiration), but unfortunately, > as too often, less convenient. > [...] > Can we perhaps learn something from Google of how to build a nice user > friendly crowd sourcing of local knowledge?
Pretty much everyone _already_ knows that a) OSB is fabulous b) that sort of functionality should be integrated on the main osm.org site Unfortunately, of the 000s of people who comprise "pretty much everyone", exactly 0.0 people have come up with some deployable code to do it. It's really not complicated. You need some basic OpenLayers knowledge (for a draggable marker), some basic Rails knowledge (for a Node-like object), and the ability to write code within a particular style (i.e. fitting with the current site) rather than imposing your own personal preferences. The design is very simple: I could probably rattle off a useful spec within about 10 seconds. I and others will be happy to help with suggestions, advice etc. on #osm whenever you need it. My own excuse for not having done it is that I'm already spending vast amounts of development time on Potlatch 2. What's yours? cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Google-expands-their-map-data-tp5735850p5736000.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
