OpenStreetMap - Improving OSM tools
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OpenStreetMap - Improving OSM tools is one of several crisiscommons projects related to OpenStreetMap. This project is for OpenStreetMap hacking to bring about improvements the tools and core website. Clearly any improvements to the OpenStreetMap tools will be of assistance to those using the tools and the maps for other crisiscommons activities (described on the OpenStreetMap page)
All of development activities are very much coordinated on the OpenStreetMap.org site where there is already an active community. Work should take place in close communication with that community. Crisiscommons can help bring developers together at crisis camps to deliver some rapid improvements, and to give some mini-project structure.
Coordinator: Kate Chapman @wonderchook, Katie Filbert @filbertkm, Andrew Turner @ajturner
Harry Wood coordinated some efforts in London. DruidSmith appears to be a key person in the U.S. somewhere
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[edit] Sub-projects
[edit] JOSM humanitarian presets
Adding default presets for OSM Humanitarian Tags,
Some progress was made with this. Kate Chapman @wonderchook was taking the lead.
No ongoing work at crisis camps particularly
[edit] JOSM WMS plugin improvements
Improved support for Web Map Services in the JOSM editing tool JOSM WMS Plugin
As a feature request, it would be tremendously useful for the JOSM WMS Plugin to support GetCapabilities requests, to simplify recurrent issues with URLs. A GetCapabilities request would query the target server to dynamically discover and retrieve a list of available WMS layers, which EPSG spatial reference systems are supported, WMS version, et cetera - these could then be used by the plugin to dynamically construct proper WMS GetMap requests, to eliminate manually constructing and debugging of WMS URL strings.
This would have been particularly useful in the OpenStreetMap Haiti] mapping efforts, as various imagery services, scanned maps and other resources came online to support the effort.
- Reference: Open Geospatial Consortium → WMS Implementation Specification; GetCapabilities
- A useful WMS aggregator (cascading WMS with a number of Haiti-related resources) that could more easily be exploited with that functionality in JOSM: http://carboncloud.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti-cascading-wms-deployed-single-wms.html
DruidSmith initially proposed this 19:13, 21 January 2010 (UTC) but didn't work on the code at all
Harry Wood had some other ideas related to WMSPlugin. Did some initial codebase exploration on 13th Feb but no progress.
No ongoing work at crisis camps particularly. This sub-project idea is still valid. If anyone wants to pick it up and do it, feel free!
[edit] OSM wiki migration and server admin work
Firefishy came along to Crisis Camp London Sat 13th Feb and worked on his important server admin stuff. He installed an accounting package for the OpenStreetMap Foundation. Registered a new SSL certificate, and did some more of the groundwork for a big server migration of the OpenStreetMap wiki (later carried out)
This is not directly related to crisis mapping, but it's an improvement to OSM project communications tools which has a knock-on benefit to all facets of the OpenStreetMap including crisis mapping.
No ongoing work at crisis camps particularly. Maybe Firefishy or other OSM System Administrators will be back at a crisis camp some time in which case they will no doubt continue OSM server admin work. It's a never ending ongoing activity. Provision of a meeting space with wifi and pizza is appreciated!
[edit] LiveMapViewer
Amm was working on his tool LiveMapViewer: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/LiveMapViewer at the Feb 13th 2010 London camp
No ongoing work at crisis camps particularly
[edit] Other ideas
Improvements are ongoing within the general mish-mash of OpenStreetMap open source development. Any developers are welcome to get involved. See Development details on the OpenStreetMap wiki. Any development should be coordinated there.
However if there are ideas for hacking to do as a short-term goal for a crisis camp event. We could mention these here.
[edit] Project Summary
Project Twitter hashtag: #ccosm
OpenStreetMap editing tools including JOSM can use some improvements, including adding default presets for OSM Humanitarian Tags, and improved support for Web Map Services.
- Project Lead: Kate Chapman @wonderchook, Katie Filbert @filbertkm, Andrew Turner @ajturner
- Customer: OpenStreetMap
- Location of Lead:
- Cities Interested:
- Portland, OR
- Boston, MA (possible)
- Washington, DC
- London
- Assigned Project Manager(s) Across all Cities:
- Interested participants:
Replacing GetLatLon.com with OSM version.
CCDCHaiti has created a new tool which replaces GetLatLon.com with a version that uses OpenStreetMap. We're using OpenLayers and Nominatim.
