Better-osm-org: a script that adds useful little things to osm.org

General talk
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Something I didn’t understand while viewing the github page.

Why is it a goal to bypass OSMF redactions ?

(“Tag redactions” was marked as done and “geometry redactions” was marked as not yet done)

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Redactions greatly interfere with the display of edit geometry and hinder understanding of the past. OSMCha and Achavi don’t encounter this problem because they use their own database and Overpass, which don’t synchronize redactions. This means that if you’re viewing the history of a way/relation or changeset, the script may show you the incorrect state of an object. In practice, this rarely prevents us from drawing the right conclusions, but still.

In theory, it’s possible to make a fallback to the Overpass API, but even Overpass isn’t always all-powerful.

For example, if we’re talking about objects hidden in 2012, when the license changed. Yes, the OSM website isn’t allowed to show these objects, but ultimately, we sacrificed the integrity of the database history. I wanted to create a tool that could display changesets for any time.

As a result, all viewers make compromises:

  • Anything based on Overpass will lag on large bboxes and won’t work if Overpass breaks. And it won’t show any changes made before 2012.
  • OSMCha has to have its own database and can quickly display only the latest changesets. If unsuccessful, fallback to Overpass
  • Result Maps has to have its own database and shows edits only for the last month
  • FacilMap and Easy_Changeset_Viewer are close in implementation to the script, but also suffer from redactions and lack of optimization
  • better-osm-org is additionally sensitive to changes on the osm.org
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By the way, if you know of any tools that are useful to have links to, please let me know.

For example, I’m currently challenging myself to write a visualizer for the full history of relation geometry. None of the tools I know of can display intermediate versions. Not all can even show a simple history of big relations.

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1.3.2 a little spontaneous update:

  • The Edit menu now has a link to the new editor OSMPIE

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  • I’m tired of watching the voting process on the wiki and counting the votes manually, so now the script is trying to show the intermediate voting results.

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…why? It’s nowhere close to being finished at this point (and its UI is still too clunky)

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At least there is an interesting render. Well, it’s in this menu for the same reason as Rapid.

I can guess that you are skeptical about this editor, so:

  1. You can disable both Rapid and OSMPIE in the settings (item: Add new editors into Edit menu)
  2. Use E and Shift + E to open iD and JOSM without opening this menu.

I am also aware of disputes in the tagging scheme and have even reported problems with broken route relations. But since the script is not an OSM website that is used by beginners who may not be aware of problems, I think you will check your edits in this editor.

I also have a small personal reason: I am very sad to see how we spent a lot of time on bureaucracy Proposal - OSM.org Editor Inclusion Policy Updated Proposal - OSM.org Editor Inclusion Policy - Draft 2 (200+ messages!)

instead of allowing mappers to add whatever links and editors they want.

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These links don’t work anymore for me.

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Can you give me an example of an changeset? And check that v1.3.3 is installed

And by the way, do you happen to be using Tampermonkey 5.4.0 + Chrome? It seems that the TM update broke many features, at least for me Ugh, I turned off some features in the settings for the test myself

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What changeset? I was talking about the GitHub links used as sources for the “organized mappers” badges.

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Yes, I understand. They are shown before the username on the /history and /changeset pages/

In my Firefox, they are shown and clickable.

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But in Chrome there is not even an icon

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Ahh, or are you talking about the link posted on the forum? The list is now here openstreetmap-statistics/config at master · piebro/openstreetmap-statistics · GitHub

I thought of something else, because clicking on :office_building: with alt will open the file with this list from GitHub

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1.3.7

  • Fixed the ruler and node movement for the new map context menu
  • Automatic addition = when inserting raw tags in iD:

If the script makes a mistake, you can undo the changes with ctrl + z. Or disable it in the script settings. This also works in the osm.org Tags Editor text field.

I also finally split the script into multiple files in the repository. The side effect is that the diff is now very large.

Please note that iD now has a dark theme. It’s similar to the theme from the script, but slightly a little lighter

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Don’t worry, this won’t happen by default.

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better-osm-org meets OpenSwitchMaps :eyes: It wouldn’t be a bad idea to be honest (not sure if the image is a joke or not -gif of Fry squinting his eyes-)