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Version 1 of the Export Tool is suspended - please see V3 https://github.com/hotosm/osm-export-tool
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Enhancement: add a location search tool when defining the Area of interest #100

Open severinmenard opened 9 years ago

severinmenard commented 9 years ago

This would spare a lot of zoom in from the globe scale to go directly to the location. Rally better with low bandwidth connection. A search that proposes a list of matching places from Nominatim and does not automatically jump to the top one. See in http://overpass-turbo.eu/ for example:

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mataharimhairi commented 9 years ago

This is definitely a feature enhancement we have talked about and would love to add, as the current AOI selection process is a little outdated and fiddly. It would be much better to have a geospatial search based on a typed in location, so as you said, will narrow down the area and then allow the user to create a bounding box for their desired extent.

The main aim of the re-write is to address all the listed bug issues and some of the key feature enhancements, but most importantly make the tool more dynamic and the code in a simple expandable state so that future feature enhancements can easily be added. We are conscious not to take on too much for the current scope, which could result with us delivering a poor product, so this is our first aim and if time permits, we will definitely add additional suggested feature enhancements.