OpenStreetMap
Uploaded a new Version of iLOE (iPhone OSM Editor) which is now in review by apple. (http://bit.ly/A1KMt)
After testing with friends, which never put in a node in OSM before, I took their suggestions and built it in. So the user interface should be improved by now. I also put in a new function to copy all tags from a node to paste it to a node. So it should be easy to tag addr:* for a hole street.
A screenshot of the new user interface can be seen here: http://twitpic.com/ovqb5
Hopefully apple's review is faster than the last time.
Greetings, Johannes
Discussion
Comment from wallclimber21 on 16 November 2009 at 22:01
Johannes,
You invite feedback on you website, but there's no obvious email address to and them too.
I tried the app (1.5). It's rather unpolished, but I guess I have to wait for the update.
One major problem that makes it more or less unusable in the US is that all nodes of a way that's imported from the tiger data set (99% of all nodes) have extensive (meaningless) tags.
So on your app, only those show up, not actual points of interest. There really should be an option to filter out those TIGER nodes.
Comment from wallclimber21 on 16 November 2009 at 22:07
Other things:
- the current version of RouteMe is WAY better when zooming in or out in that it will magnify an existing texture is a high resolution one doesn't exist. Use that one.
- show the spinning circle when your downloading something
- make it possible to remove the node display
- I found myself tapping the node rows to update or download them, instead of tapping the download button. Why not put a button there when there are no nodes loaded instead of repeating the same text 3 times? And add a refresh button there too.
Comment from softeis on 16 November 2009 at 23:04
Hello wallclimber21,
thank you very much for feedback. To get feedback on one position I decided to use http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:ILOE for it.
please allow me to put your comments there.
To give you a better better insight I'll try to explain the roadmap:
-I just tried a version just for my own, because I wanted to edit on my iPhone :-)
-I had in mind more josm than potlatch: You can do all with it, but problem: you have to know how to use.
-So the first 2 versions are very technical. One has to read the documents, and needs some OSM background.
-At the moment you own V1.1, I decided to draw 1.5 back in favor of 1.6 which has a lot more of improvements (apple allows only one update per app).
-I see the problems with the TIGER nodes (doing a lot of testing in Cupertino, this is where the iPhone simulator takes me :-) ). This was asked by some people: Please filter, I only wan't to see, ... At the moment I thinking over it. May be a few words to the workflow about that:
-Workflow: Let GPS find your position, it turns off automatically, or turn it off by yourself. Download nodes, to see if "your" node is not already there. ...
Other things:
-zooming: built in 1.6
-spinning circle: built in V1.6
-make it possible to remove node display: -> wishlist, will come in 2.0; but wait for 1.6. maybe it's better there.
-tapping node rows: V1.6: colors for nodes, bring node to front, map only moves
when out of sight.
- maybe we could talk about the details in the wiki, so you can explain me better?
Thanks again for feedback,
Johannes