Everyone, thank you for all the feedback and reports. I have a great note-taking system, so nothing is ever lost. I continue working on the most critical issues first, and I keep posting in the changelog channel on the OSM-NG Developers Discord. I’ll then pack everything together into a new diary #25 in 1-2 weeks. I’m really happy with the amount of engagement!

MxxCon, you say that so confidently, and yet it’s clear you haven’t read the trademark policy. I have read it several times.

this text is misleading when show on page of project not affiliated with the OpenStreetMap Foundation, not sponsored by Fastly and so on

The project is currently based on somewhat outdated translations. There’s a plan to update them at some point in the future, but that’s a low priority issue. I don’t think it matters much for testing purposes.

Also, use of this domain and logo and asking about passwords to osm.org is fishy at best from phishing and trademark perspective

Please note the big splash screen the first time you visit the test site. You explicitly need to acknowledge that you are on an independent test site. Otherwise, it will not let you proceed.

The testing guide also states:

This is a test environment. DO NOT use your real OpenStreetMap password, personal email (see point 4), or any real private information. Treat all data you enter as publicly visible and use test/fake information only.

If you are going to participate in the testing, please read through the testing guide carefully. It answers many of the questions you may have. I have put a lot of effort into making it easy to digest and understand.

@Matija Nalis lots, but I’m keeping it all for one big update hopefully soon. One last blocker is building an index (CREATE INDEX element_members_ways_idx ON public.element USING gin (members) …) in a reasonable amount of time even with limited resources. I want OSM-NG to run fast on low-end machines, and even faster on high-end ones - and a few months went into optimizing and improving this scaling behavior. I’ll summarize it all in the next Development Diary.

@Hedaja I’ve thought about it a few times, and I believe having a left/right-hand side preference for just this one thing is a bit much. It might be more reasonable to implement if there were more places that could make use of it.