Given last night IRCs conversations i was pondering earle's contention that openguides is intimidating. One answer to this is to have two levels of edit page. A simple page and an advanced page. the advanced page would be the same as currently.
The simple page would have the following bits to fill in.
Address: Postcode: Description(content): Where is it? (aka locales): What is it? (aka categories): Summmary: Username: Comment about addition/change (possibly):
This shoudl be enough data for a useful entry. make it obvious that only really decription and node name is vitally important and possibly one of locale or category. Add some ajaxian suggest magic for locale and categories Also so as not to poeple off it might be worth having this form on the new page cgi as well. So they dont have to go through multiple pages to create a page.
We shoudl probably look at ways to autogenerate the map links and geodata. I know soem guides are already doing this.
then we can have what edit page you see as an option. For those of who like to fiddle with all the data. And of course give the users the ability to see the full edit page if they want.
now i just need to rememebr the othe ridea i had last night.
-- Bob Walker http://www.randomness.org.uk/ Very few things dont taste good once deep fried.