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Community Chat 10th December 16:00 – 17:00 (UTC)

https://osmcal.org/event/4214/

Attendees

• Martin
• Mateusz
• Gregory

Notes

• Improvement regarding relation editing in iD
  • implementation in progress:
    • reordered buttons to make more space for feature labels in relation membership editor
    • add visual indicator for when relation members are connected (important especially for route relations)
    • tagging schema defines allowed roles for different relation types
  • further ideas:
    • easily add/remove members from a relation: when relation is selected, press a modifier key and click on the features to add/remove
    • add buttons to automatically order members
    • validator: add checks for valid member roles
    • validator: add check for multipolygon topology check
    • better visual indicator to distinguish relations from each other when they have the same label, e.g. by automatically "color coding" them
    • be able to better edit large multipolygons / route relations
• New way to deploy iD on osm.org
  • now via npm package
  • should be possible also to be used by other tools that include iD, such as the tasking manager
  • tasking manager: there is currently a bug making it unreliable to pass on extra hash parameters (e.g. disable_features or validationError params) to iD. Needs to be investigated before it can be used for actual projects

Community Chat 5th November 16:00 – 17:00 (UTC)

https://osmcal.org/event/4131/

Attendees

• Martin
• Gregory

Notes

• iD version on task manager is sometimes a bit out of date from the main osm instance
  • work in progress to making it easier to deploy releases as embedded editors e.g. the OSM website or the tasking manager
• validator warnings should guide users towards the best ways to fix them
  • see https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/11329
  • rationale: how to we want to guide contributors to best fix a mapping mistake
  • next steps: go through all validators and propose better order of offered fixes
• locked fields in iD:
  • is that the best UI/UX to prevent mapping mistakes?
  • see e.g. https://github.com/openstreetmap/id/issues/6789
  • explain in more detail why the fields are locked
  • maybe relax the locking of fields/features depending on user experience?
  • similar example: coastline editing -> should some mapping operations be locked to not break them easily??
• imagery offset
  • should the imagery offset be added as metadata to changesets?
  • in tasking manager: use API parameter to set the (starting/default) offset of an imagery
  • allow to set offset for manually entered layer in custom URL

Community Chat (Tuesday!) 2nd September 15:00 – 16:00 (UTC)

https://osmcal.org/event/3958/

Attendees

• Martin
• Pierre-Léo

Agenda / Notes

• (Pierre-Léo) hotkeys for presets, https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/pull/11269
• (Pierre-Léo) Updating https://github.com/tyrasd/osmtogeojson/pull/146
• (Pierre-Léo) Custom presets proposition

Community Chat 6th August 15:00 – 16:00 (UTC)

https://osmcal.org/event/3874/

Attendees

• Martin Raifer
• Pierre-Léo Bourbonnais
• Tobias Jordans
• Youssef Elzedy

Agenda / Notes

• GSoC project: currently working on synchronizing settings on the osm account (rather than in the browser's local storage)
• iD release recently introduced rendering of address points and addresses on buildings
• Kyle joins the project as co-maintainer, and recently helped a lot with cleaning up translations on transifex
• Pierre-Leo worked on a new power feature in iD: hotkeys for presets
  

Community Chat 2nd July 2025 15:00 – 16:00 (UTC)

https://osmcal.org/event/3850/

Attendees

• Tobias
• John
• Martin
• Mateusz

Agenda / Notes

Format "(AddedBy) Title"

• (Tobias) Recap of exchange with Pierre-Léo, Martin, Tobias – https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/11168
• (Tobias) Decode country coder Q46 to country strings during build? https://github.com/bryceco/GoMap/issues/855
  • => See https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/issues/1625 for a conclusion
• (Tobias) Update GSoC - update on which features you aim for
• (Tobias) Update Livecycle Tagging
• (Tobias) Update Schema Builder Release https://github.com/ideditor/schema-builder/issues/196
• (Tobias) Right time to Restart Efforts no improvements on ELI? https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/9730#issuecomment-2991335427
• (Tobias) Update Contributor Roles
• (Tobias) Next step in cleaning up the translation files

Community Chat 2025-06-04 9:00 UTC

Attendees

• Martin
• Kyle
• Tobias
• Mattia
• Pierre-Leo Bourbonnais

Agenda / Notes

• (Mattia) Lifecycle tagging support project:
  • https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/pull/10844
  • project is coming to an end now
  • some last details to be ironed out
  • ask specifically for feedback from wider community before launch (e.g. with a beta-phase / dedicated testing instance)
  • consider a gradual roll out to only specific feature types first (e.g. start with highways, shops, etc.)
  • maybe make the functionality be customizable on a per-preset basis
• (Tobias) Update on GSoC Timeline, Projects, Communication
  • https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/introducing-my-gsoc-project-modernizing-session-management-in-id-editor/130928
  • regular updates will be posted on the community forum
• (Pierre-Léo (or Tobias)) Integrate Features from an iD Fork https://github.com/kaligrafy/iD, https://projets.chaire.transition.city/#background=GeodesieQuebec&disable_features=boundaries&map=17.58/45.40780/-73.94573
  • shortcuts for presets + preset favorites
  • custom map styles for visual QA and feedback (maxspeed, required fields on roads, bike infra, building type)
  • line and area actions to create curves, smooth curves, follow area shapes
  • imagery alignment issues
  • PRs welcome?
  • Update: https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/11168
• (Tobias) Schema builder major release planning meeting https://github.com/ideditor/schema-builder/issues/196 with Kyle, Martin, Tobias
• (Tobias) Call for UX contributors; create issues for UX Contributors
  • for examples…
  • small redesign of fields section to make it more compact
  • explore https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/issues/1202
  • explore https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/11066
  • explore https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/10613
  • explore the different interactions of "follow this line/shape" to decide quick we want to support
  • explore the different interactions to "select all of this kind; select all along this line" in combination with "review certain tags on those objects"
• (Tobias) https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/pull/1338#pullrequestreview-2883658398 Go/nogo?
  • => regional presets are ment to be used when needed
• (Tobias) FYI process for tagging presets with new issue label "waiting-ready-to-merge": Ideally start reviewing quickly, but then wait a bit for other feedback.

next meeting: July 2, 15:00 UTC

Community Chat 2025-05-07 15:00 UTC

See ID/Community Chats/2025-05-07

Community Chat 2025-04-02 15:00 UTC

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Community Chat 2025-03-05 15:00 UTC

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Community Chat 2025-02-05 15:00 UTC

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Community Chat 2025-01-08 15:00 UTC

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