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openbrian / osm-microcosms

The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
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Enhancement: Integrate with the OSM Community Index #29

Open RobJN opened 4 years ago

RobJN commented 4 years ago

There is an OSM Community Index (https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index) in which groups can define the area of their group in more detail than a basic min and max lat/lon coordinates. The index is then available to other users. For example the iD editor shows you the groups active in the area you are editing in when you press Save, and https://community.osm.be/ shows a map of them all.

An enhancement would therefore be to integrate this somehow. E.g. allow a microcosm to be set up using one of the existing community index geometries.

openbrian commented 4 years ago

Great idea!

RobJN commented 4 years ago

Agree that this is a v2 thing. One option: you currently ask for coordinate plus bbox (min max coordinates). Perhaps drop the bbox and replace with an option to associate your group with one of the existing entries in the OSM Community index.

openbrian commented 4 years ago

https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index Oh Rob already linked to that. I just stumbled upon it via iD source code.