show-me-the-way

See OSM edits happen in real time. (by osmlab)

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  • See OSM edits happen in real time
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Dec 2021
    github:

    "See OSM edits happen in real time."

    https://github.com/osmlab/show-me-the-way

    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Dec 2021
  • A more "exciting" https://openstreetmap.org would have made me sign up months earlier.
    2 projects | /r/openstreetmap | 23 Nov 2021
    #1: About the "About" page. When a new user visits OSM's website, they are presented with a popup sporting two big buttons: "learn more", and "start mapping". I clicked "start mapping", but, presented with a login screen, I went back to "learn more" and was linked to OSM's About page. This page features no images, videos, or animations apart from the header, giving the impression that it could have been written by one person or a very small group. I didn't care about most of the links. User diaries sounded pretty off topic and was already in the top sitewide navigation bar. There were also uninspiring links to copyright licensing, the privacy policy, and a list of OSM's partners which I didn't recognize. Perhaps the most enticing link is the official OSM blog. So here's what I'd do: Instead of telling me that maps are created "by the community", https://osmlab.github.io/show-me-the-way/ could be used for a live demonstration. Instead of doubling down on "Open Data" and "Legal" segments, some information could move to the copyright page. Links to tools like OsmAnd, and data users like MapBox (and by extension Facebook and Snapchat) might be impossible for legal reasons, but they'd be a strong selling point. The page does proudly proclaim that "OpenStreetMap provides map data for thousands of web sites, mobile apps, and hardware devices" but I've learned to always take those broad statements with a grain of salt. For example, "hardware devices" could mean that 2,000 people worldwide have downloaded an OSM app on their phones, which doesn't seem all too impressive. After years of hearing about the 3 billion devices that run Java, all those user numbers feel pretty meaningless. The "about" page fails to show the true scope of this project, and alongside the other points I mention, it made OSM feel small.
  • OpenStreetMap in Realtime
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2021
    I worked on this ages ago :). It's replaying the last minute's edits, and since all of the editing tools just file a changeset (like a commit) all at once, it has to reconstruct what it looked like to draw those features. That timing is just based on a fixed count of seconds it should take to draw a line, a point, etc. The code's here:

    https://github.com/osmlab/show-me-the-way/blob/gh-pages/js/s...

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osmlab/show-me-the-way is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of show-me-the-way is JavaScript.

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