State of the Map 2009/Ideas

The following ideas were listed during a Sunday morning Q & A session with the whole SOTM crowd putting forward their main wishes for improvements to OpenStreetMap:

Ideas to pursue (to sort)

Twitter search for the official hashtag #lazyosm saved search on slideshare

Web interface

• enable upload of tracks in other formats as GPX. Save a default for each user.
• front page of OpenStreetMap.org more diverse for different user groups
• add forum link to the homepage
• same account for API and Wiki
• fix username login (no need for small case, no spaces)
• sending messages to people within bounding box
• RSS-feed/Mailing to get infos about newly approved features
• better access to GPX data, via API and dump of sorts
• link to a quality assurance page showing all the good tools we have (e.g. keepright, tiger tidy, ...)

Map (display) improvements

• mapping for disabled people, tactile paving - Results so far see OSM_for_the_blind
• treasure hunt game which at the same time collects geodata

• WMS OSM Mapnik server
• XAPI wanted back and stable!
• OpenHikingMap, OpenSeaChart, OpenAeroChart for all the world

• proper internationalization support, transliteration
• quick preview with all the renderers with my changes, side-by-side
• dynamic POIs (switch categories on/off, show description if mouse hovers over)
  • Anyone have the URL that was mentioned? I'm reluctant to get a Twitter account just to look it up.
    • Sure: http://dev.openstreetmap.nl/~rubke/xapi and click on 'Expand Panel'.

Other

• ortho snap for JOSM
• open hardware in devices
• weekly mailing list summary on opengeodata
• "Send an ecard with you location"-Interface
• Make accessible tools for the blind (command line interface), for instance download OSM data along a GPS track