OpenStreetMap
I went totally out of my comfort zone today. I was reviewing some pictures I had submitted to Mapillary and found one, I wanted to add right away to OSM. So I tried the link to edit it with iD. The first thing that’s odd, is that the zoom level is far out and the location of the object is way off. (It ends up all the way to the right, under the vertical button bar). I’d have expected it to appear centered, zoom level 21.
The next thing that’s annoying, is that the Mapillary layer is not switched on automatically, so I need to know iD to know where to go to switch it on. That’s not entirely intuitive.
Anyway, time to try and create a Mapillary plugin for JOSM.
Then I wanted to upload what I just added. But I couldn’t figure out how to add tags to the changeset. In version 2 I managed to add a source, but that ended up on the object. Now this scrawny tree already has 3 versions and none of those changesets have the source information I wanted to add to it.
Jo
Diskuse
Komentář od Peter Neubauer z 29. 01. 2015 v 18:38
Thanks for the feedback - I’m the author of the Mapillary iD plugin. Feel free to clone the code and improve the handling - a default layer-on was not deemed suitable a few months ago when this code got in.
Integration into JOSM would be highly appreciated!
/peter
Komentář od Polyglot z 29. 01. 2015 v 20:42
Hi Peter,
Please don’t take it as a criticism of your work. It’s great you did the integration. I’m merely commenting from my own perspective as a user. A newbie as far as iD goes, but an old hand as far as OSM editing goes (with both JOSM and Potlatch), which may not be how ‘real’ newbies perceive it.
Anyway, it’s mostly criticism of how iD works. Not sure if I’ll ever get comfortable with it. I’m really grateful for the work you did on it!
Cheers,
Jo