It is a great little tool. Simple, but surprisingly effective. It
actually works amazingly well when coupled with a voice chat program.
In HOT we use mumble for voice and the geochat plugin combined with that
allows mappers to "point" to objects in imagery by centering on them and
then letting other user look at the same area to discuss what is being
seen in the imagery. Things like how a road should be classified, how
to tag a specific thing, etc. Of course you can use the text chat right
in the plugin as well, but I always prefer voice chat for discussion as
it is just so much faster.
In any case, it is not a plugin I use super often, but when I do need
it, it is just the right tool for the job. My only suggestion would be
that you consider making "show users on map" default to "on" instead of
"off" like it is now. I always forget to turn it on unless I
specifically want to collaborate with someone, but I think if it
defaulted to on then it would get a lot more use. It would be really
fun to be mapping and see other people showing up in the area to see
what you are working on. I think it would really add to the sense of
community in OSM.
-AndrewBuck
On 01/07/2018 09:00 AM, Ilya Zverev wrote:
Paul wrote:
Is GeoChat <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/GeoChat>
down
or defunct now? I haven't been able to connect to it in a couple
days now.
Sorry Paul, that was caused by forcing https on all OSM servers. Java,
turns out, does not auto-redirect from http to https. I've just
updated the URL in the plugin and tested that it works.
Nice to hear somebody uses it :)
Ilya
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