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openstreetmap / iD

iD

🆔 The easy-to-use OpenStreetMap editor in JavaScript.

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🆔 The easy-to-use OpenStreetMap editor in JavaScript.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year12 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-02-05 13:35:34 UTC to 2023-02-03 14:52:02 UTC.

01232013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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mpawelski·Feb 3, 2023
For me a good example have always been https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/ which rendered very poorly on Firefox. I see it's better now, but still, try to hover over the table (do couple of mouse movement, some circles or something) and see that it's not as responsive as Chrome is. Another example is iD[0] Editor on https://www.openstreetmap.org/. But there, to be fair, it's also slow on Chrome but I feel it's a bit slower on Firefox. [0] https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD
In Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
habi·Mar 30, 2022
OpenStreetMap has all the curbs, sidewalks and crosswalks, too. They are not rendered in OSM Carto [1], but show up in the data, when you click on the edit link, or load the region in JOSM [2]. Here's a screenshot of the region in JOSM https://share.getcloudapp.com/X6uEexZo, and here in iD [3]: https://share.getcloudapp.com/7KuQPyLg The benches are even mapped with their 'viewing direction' and color :) [1]: The standard style on osm.org: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto [2]: The powerful editor for OSM data: https://josm.openstreetmap.de [3]: The editor behind the 'Edit' button on osm.org: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD
In Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco
chefandy·Mar 25, 2022
> can't tell what kind is the wrong kind To some extent you can tell from their title and previous work, just like with developers. Foe example, I had an entirely non-technical boss that understood I might not be the guy to re-write some printer drivers because I was a web developer. He didn't know the specifics, but being in charge, knew he had to ask someone who did, or do enough research to figure it out. Likewise, UI designers will specialize in designing UIs and be better at making buttons look like buttons than Graphic Designers, and Experience Designers will be better at integrating user feedback and research into projects. Just like you wouldn't trust any one developer to implement critical functionality you don't understand without outside input, you probably shouldn't rely on one designer to that either. If you maintain a projec
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t, though, you can't expect designers to instinctually work around what you don't know. Being in charge means that you're in charge of figuring out how to evaluate it. I'm positive that a "I'm not sure how to interface with this sort of thing. Let's work through it so I can figure it out." will be received kindly by people you should consider working with. Good design proposals should already come with explanation and justification to help you down the path This is a random selection from a google image search of proposal ideas. It was from another post where I was talking about higher-level topics but the principle is the same. Changing a set of control widgets should require no less thought and explanation. https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/759 https://github.com/stashapp/stash/issues/1549 https://github.com/newrelic/nr1-groundskeeper/issues/3 https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons.github.io... https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/1823 > Developers absolutely refer to developers with glib contempt. ok— now copy and paste the rest of what I wrote. An overly opinionated, defensive person with veto powers that understands the purpose and value of your work is fundamentally different.
In The end of the nice GTK button
chefandy·Mar 15, 2022
You've never seen a thorough design proposal? Typical commercial pre-wireframe research and proposal: https://web.stanford.edu/~eadolfo/cis-redesign/attachments/p... More common in FOSS: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/759 https://github.com/stashapp/stash/issues/1549 https://github.com/newrelic/nr1-groundskeeper/issues/3 https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons.github.io... https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/1823 (from google searching for things like site:github.com "wireframes" "design" "proposal") > a) They have, b) it's definitely not rare, and c) it is an enormous time-drain and source of frustration for maintainers in the FOSS community. I can't claim to be omniscient but I've been a constant open source contributor for 10 odd years and heavy user for nearly 25 and I've never seen that, or ev
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en heard people complain about it, let alone enough to be an enormous problem. I've seen ill-conceived gripe lists, superficial 'lets make this look cool,' and 'this font sucks' type issues periodically. None of those are serious design proposals any more than "make everything faster" or "I hate when your program does x" or "I think we should get rid of this and make it in react" are serious development proposals. I'll happily put together a guide on cutting through bullshit UI change proposals if I could evaluate some issues/PRs for open source repos that constantly experience this problem.
In My Pinephone Setup
lucideer·Aug 27, 2018
> There is also some controversy around it Do you have a link to some commentary on this? I'm aware of MS's generated US building footprints[0] but this hasn't (yet) been integrated into OSM (largely I think due to quality and bulk-import etiquette worries). And also StreetSide[1] but this isn't imported into OSM itself, rather it's displayed as an aid for editors. Facebook is looking at contributions similar to MS's US building footprints (but for roads), but again this is mainly around tooling and generation rather than data sources, and is speculative as far as I've seen. [0] https://github.com/Microsoft/USBuildingFootprints [1] https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/pull/5050
In How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing to OpenStreetMap
maxerickson·May 25, 2016
A technical policy doesn't stop me from doing it semi-manually in JOSM (it'd merely be annoying to geographically segment some edits and space them out over time). So it ultimately depends on good behavior anyway. The preset system in iD is driven by the data here: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/tree/master/data In particular, the suggestions are built here: https://github.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index The process looks at popularity and then tries to do some standardization from there, suggesting a most popular form when less popular forms are encountered. There's a shorter list of committers, but I would say it's overall reasonably open to contributions. My point with the Wikipedia is who cares. If you know Wikipedia does 1930-34 and OSM does 1930:1934, the details of converting one to the other will tend to be a lot simpler tha
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n any interesting thing you are trying to do with the combined data. It's a bunch of annoying cat herding to get a little bit of hypothetical convenience (hypothetical because what interesting thing is presently held back by the different forms?).
In Google Maps is about to get a lot more ads
iirvine·Aug 23, 2013
I've been following iD development on github (https://github.com/systemed/iD/) since last year, and I honestly think that reading through its source is the single best case study I've come across for application development with D3. It's pretty phenomenal. Perhaps I'm a bit biased since I work on map stuff as well, but I think pretty much anyone thinking about using D3 to build anything larger than one-off visualizations would do well to see how it's put to use in iD. Hats off to you guys, great work!
In OpenStreetMap gets new, easier to use in-browser editor

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