[OGDev] [OSM-offlist-talk] Storing extensive notes on points of interest in OSM?

[Adam Boardman]

Replying to bits of two of Dominic's mesages:

> Rather than having the central portal accept edits itself, it should
> present the user with a choice of relevant guides to add to:

I would rather keep the UI simple, I dont imagine that peoples comments 
are sent imediately, though I wouldnt stop them, but rather have the 
client code store up a batch of changes which are uploaded at once, 
along with any blog posts, gsm cell id to location mappings, osm map 
corrections etc. So I want a fire and forget API (well a msg 
accepted/failed response is ok).

> ..maybe there is also a need for a global OpenGuide that can be used as a
> place to store such things.

Yep that would be fine, and any new ambigous articles can go there and 
then be adopted by new or existing local guides as relivant, or live on 
the global one if not, which would always have to be asked for articles 
when the mobile app requests articles for a specific bbox.

> I don't quite understand what you're getting at here; what, technically
> is required that isn't already provided by OpenGuides? Is it just a case
> of mobile-friendly stylesheets?

Just that I personally dont do remote web access unless I have to, I use 
a PAYG sim when out and about, and then free WiFi (at home or where I 
find it) to sync up any larger activities. If I had an all you can eat 
tarrif then I might be more inclined to do things like edit web pages 
online. Also my app uses a compressed binary protocol for communicating 
to my server (acting as a proxy) so saving costs over using a normal 
bloated html/xml.

Cheers,

Adam.