Profcard
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I hope next year will be more succesful, stable and peaceful.
I believe wikimapia next year will be more dynamic, more and more users will join our side and show their best. Wikimapia needs novices.
I wish that next year we'll avoid such conflicts as this year. Dialog between administrators and users should happen everyday, users should try to understand actions of admins, while they should perceive users and they problems. Admins should take part at the forum and solve problems with the community. Also, conflicts between users, especially UL2 doesn't make any credits and I hope they'll be solved. That is probably all I want to wish.
2010 is waiting :) |
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ZacharyKent
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| I would like to see the removal of the rank system! |
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happygoth09
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| 16 years ago |
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| I wish for a brand new computer so that even I'm at home I can make more contributions here in WM |
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Carneyfex
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I wish for:
* three levels of railways - main line, station lines and spurs - all depicted with a black line of varying widths, and visible from different zoom levels;
* banishing of point ratings (with the remaining stats left intact);
* quadratic Besier curves for linear objects instead of straight lines;
* visible labels on linear objects;
* route numbers separate from street/road names;
* more category icons available, because they enhance the look of the map;
* different colour for the buildings, defined only by their address;
* piece and prosperity in Wikimapia so that it is a single community and not administration vs. the "proletariat". |
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ZacharyKent
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@ Carneyfex
You have got a good list, I hope they all come true! :-)
@ happygoth09
I also hope you do get one. :-) |
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stcraftie59
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>>* different colour for the buildings, defined only by their address;<<
I am curious about this. Could you explain further? |
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Profcard
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| Different building colour is a good idea, but it hardly can appear here. I saw lots of maps where administrative buildings and cultural objects has different colours wich makes them eas to see and locate. |
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Carneyfex
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[i:39sc9xnl]I am curious about this. Could you explain further?[/i:39sc9xnl]
When a building has no name, only address, it is 99.99% sure to be a residential building, which is relatively unimportant. If such building were coloured in a lot lighter shade of gray than other buildings, which are presumably some public buildings like libraries, cafés, bars, museums, theaters etc., it would make the latter stand out in the map mode and thus easier to notice. Currently the only possible way to recognize an interesting object is by map icons, however, there are hardly enough icons and they vanish in some lower zoom settings. |
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RK77
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I wish for:
* Different colours for different road types (eg. Orange for Highways, Blue for Secondary Routes etc.) [i:1ht80xjd]Any colour combination will do as long as they can be differentiated![/i:1ht80xjd]
* The option to give routes customizable lane quantities (eg. 2,3,4+ for Highways; 2,3 for Secondary Routes etc.) [i:1ht80xjd]I think the 'High Traffic' and 'Low Traffic' road types are ambiguous to describe the quantity of lanes a road should have depending on its traffic usage. JMO, I could be wrong![/i:1ht80xjd]
* Additional road/path formats (eg. Dashed lines for miscellaneous routes, hiking route, country walk routes)
* Route abbreviation labels to appear separate to route name labels
* More category icons, loads more! ;-)
* Ability for all UL2s to 'flag' dubious categories
* Ability to merge polygon dots so shapes with 'holes' can be created. (ideal for buildings with courtyards within them and more!)
* Bezier curves sound good!
Most of my wishes are similar to Carneyfex's, but this is good because we wish the best for Wikimapia and its usability. |
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Martin67
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There are many things I would like to see added in WM in the next year starting with a "snap tool"
that would help everyone make better polygon "joining" to other ones...(no gaps, no overlaps)
I've been asking for that for 18 months now and still nothing :-(
For those not familiar: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.2/index.cfm?TopicName=...">webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9 ... ties_table<!-- m -->
If the Admins do not set the Wikimapia classic View as default view:
For "old rectangle places" that can only be seen on the Wikimapia classic View
I would like having them all:
1- reduced by half automatically (so many of them are badly "drawn" houses)
2- having them transformed automatically to polygons (so that we don't loose the good ones and their info)
3- Have them all get the "not approved" category so that the ones who need to be cleaned could be deleted quickly. (maybe a new category "old rectangle" could be also set automatically to all of them to find them easily!)
With this, there would be much less duplicated place tags added IMO |
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ZacharyKent
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| 16 years ago |
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| I forgot to add, the ability to revert vandalised polygons as we have for tags. |
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ArnoutSteenhoek
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| 16 years ago |
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| I wish fair global politics spoken by fair politicians, which will be broadcast by unbiased fair media, unspoiled because of nationalistic, religious, materialistic or other ideals and interests, for a FAIR WORLD! |
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Wikisoriano
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| 16 years ago |
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| I would like also an historical layer. :) |
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Carneyfex
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I remembered one more thing:
* a tram track layer above the road layer would be nice. It could use all the infrastructure that is already in place for railway track, only it should be drawn over the roads instead of under the roads and be of different color, say, well-saturated dark green. |
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vikasv
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orangejuice
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| 16 years ago |
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| In 2010, I wish for UserLevel 2 help me to clean up Yogyakarta map. |
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mmorx
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I wish for:
*Street names, visible on streets and roads.
*Road numbers on roads, motorways and streets.
*Different colors on differend road types
*Easier to make islands on rivers
*To create places, like forests, woods... with dark-green color.
Biggest wish for Wikimapia - to progress... and create the very detail intereactive map for WORLD. |
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mmorx
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| 16 years ago |
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| My wish for next decade in Wikimapia - To get driving directions with Wikimapia map in Wikimapia site :) |
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shoa
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If roads can be made re-traceable at a click of a mouse,
and if roads can also be included in a watch-list, then
the application of this system (securing roads), or for
that matter, securing all linear features gets the
highest priority in my wish list for WM.
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renkessler
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| 16 years ago |
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| I wish for Whirled Peas. |
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ordoinc
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A new wish, maybe this is a new idea too. A checkbox for when we are editing roads that will display all unnamed road segments in the color purple, and a checkbox that will display all left-arrow one-way traffic segments in green and the right-arrow one-way segments in red. I think these tools will help indicate problems with the displays of traffic flow when that option is checked, or problems with segments missing names. This could possibly be easy to implement since it uses database attributes that are already collected for the road features.
But also, like many others, I do still want to see more road attributes available.
- Zach |
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abbascon
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I wish roads and tags should be perfectly drawn with the help of basic geometrical shapes like rectangles, squares, circles, ellipse, polygon, etc.
Roads should also be protected, also saved with the history and other features like in other tags of places. |
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Zahid786
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smellylac
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| 16 years ago |
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I wish to see Tatar language among other Wikimapia's working languages.
Amen! |
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Aldi1
Joined: 10/07/07
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renkessler
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| 16 years ago |
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| Love it, Aldi. I am going to order one. |
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vikasv
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RK77
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Not overly important, but a neat idea nonetheless.
How about retaining the 'Added by [i:26zquf0x]abc[/i:26zquf0x]' label at the bottom of the tag and have all subsequent editors labelled next to it, like 'Edited by [i:26zquf0x]xyz[/i:26zquf0x]'.
Of course the 'Edited by [i:26zquf0x]xyz[/i:26zquf0x]' label would only show the latest editor of the tag - as is the case with the current system.
Would be nice to conveniently see who has added the tag as well as those credited for later edits, without having to check the history versions.
Just an idea... :-) |
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RK77
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renkessler
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The most important feature that can be added to WM would be to require users to register before they are permitted to add to The Map. Upon logging in for the first time, they need to be delivered to a page that briefly outlines the basics of good tagging, as well as a brief tutorial on how to add/edit.
This step alone could prevent the majority of the clutter we now see around the world.
Of course, if I couldn't spend my evenings deleting bad tags I might get bored to death. |
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renkessler
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How about a feature that allows us to rotate a polygon instead of moving all the points? Could make some edits much quicker.
How about a scaling feature to resize polygons without having to move all the points?
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Aldi1
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| 16 years ago |
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I would like to have a link to the "Wikimapia forum" or at least a link to the top of the page on the bottom of each forum page, so I do not always have to scroll to the top of the page to get to another thread.
Sorry, but my bones are getting old and I like it comfy. |
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8cinq
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| 16 years ago |
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| I would like to see new comments in watchlist. |
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vikasv
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In this thread : <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="www.wikimapia.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5602">www.wikimapia.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5602<;!-- m -->
Koriakine had written " Wikimapia team has great plans for this year, starting from new history and [b:1dzgtaw0]watchlist for all actions[/b:1dzgtaw0] in Wikimapia to new interesting features which we had in mind for a long time. "
I think the new watchlist would also include comments. |
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RK77
Joined: 27/02/07
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I would like to easily trace places according to their addresses.
Also I would like to edit an address, instead of going through the rigmarole of: Clear street > Save > Another... > [i:rr7vsq7b]enter new street name[/i:rr7vsq7b] > Save. |
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stcraftie59
Joined: 11/02/07
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| 16 years ago |
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No more clones. Farking idiots too.
Hey, I can wish, even if it doesn't come true. |
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RabbitChaser
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I wish Wikimapia to be real-time someday. Even this will never happen for some reasons, I'm glad it just exists.
And I wish one more thing... To update maps for my favorite village in Smolenskaya oblast.
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="wikimapia.org/#lat=55.0368272&;lon=33.5851192&z=14&l=1&m=b&show=/11380779/ru/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE">wikimapia.org/#lat=55.0368272&;lo ... 0%BD%D0%BE<!-- m -->
Actually I was waiting for the update for years and not long ago the maps all around was updated, but not the village maps and that was very frustrating... |
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MHibbs
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| 16 years ago |
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| I'd like to see the de-commercialization of wikimapia, the return of so many good users lost due to gross hubris by those in power and the end of the ranking system. |
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Merck82ABN
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I would like to see different types for railroads (just like road have).
- Such as one for narrow (non-standard) gauge.
- And possibly different classification for yard tracks
Also, it would be nice to have a "trails" marking system (ie. like roads, and railroads).
With possible designations of hiking, horse, snowmobile/ATV, etc.
And like some others have mentioned previously, it would be great to have a "curve" tool for laying roads and railways, instead of just the straight-line segments.
Could "Layers" be implemented? ie a road layer, a railroad layer, etc. This way a user could select the layers to have showing. |
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RK77
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I would like the inclusion of an extra road (preferably dotted or dashed) for roads that [u:1r1iusmb]are[/u:1r1iusmb] under construction.
Currently, 'places' that are under construction [u:1r1iusmb]can[/u:1r1iusmb] be marked, but their is no particular dispensation for roads that are under construction (or under alteration for that matter!).
Another issue that is related to this scenario is roads that [u:1r1iusmb]are[/u:1r1iusmb] constructed but are not yet visible on the map. They, IMO, should be marked with a different road-type until they are visible in an updated map.
Elongated polygons for small stretches of road may be a current, satisfactory compromise; but using tags to mark roads (especially longer stretches of roads) is not ideal nor indeed a proper use of the tool.
In the instances of "under construction" roads and "non-visible but existing" roads, there should certainly be an extra road denomination. |
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cramyourspam
 Joined: 04/12/09
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(Reposting ---not sure which of these forums is the active one)
I'd wish for a layers checkbox sort of control.
One of my favorite weather radar sites has this feature.
Example:
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And here's a short-URL version of the same:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="tinyurl.com/checkbox-control-example">tinyurl.com/checkbox-control-example<;!-- m -->
In that example, the layers control checkbox is below the map square on the left side.
You'll see that my own preference for this site is a satellite photo background, hybrid road/map presence, weather station wind speed and temperature sites shown, radar present as loop animation, severe weather warnings visible if active.
Other users would want different settings. This is my favorite weather site because at a glance many layers of data I prefer are there for me. Others customize their own way.
To compare it to WikiMapia, if the technology allows it, I'd hope to see Classic, Deleted Places, Satellite View, etc as checkbox options rather than separate maps. Even though I have a "high speed" laptop officially, I think the ispn skimps from time to time and gives slow load-ups, so toggling between the various separate map types is annoyingly slow from home.
I'd like to be able to pick a background type (Satellite, Map, or Terrain) and then be able to pick additional layers of overlay data to show or hide like:
Show
_Active Roads/Rails/Routes.
_Abandoned Roads/Rails/Routes.
_Large Places (10 miles and up).
_Tiny Places (100 feet and below).
_Trivial Places.
_Waterways.
_Deleted Places.
_Historical Places/Events (no now-visible trace).
The latter would be for those gone-without-a-trace historicals whose locations are still known or obtainable (versus historicals which still have visible traces like the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg in the USA ---the site is parkland with thousands of annual visitors). Historical places and events are important.
WikiMapia can become a PROFOUNDly useful tool for historical research and for archaeological-geographic learning. The ability to combine the world's historical and archaeological knowledge in a non-specialist-usable map which also shows current real-world data too? Can I nominate someone for a Nobel Prize for that?
They the gone-without-a-trace historicals should be available, but they'd be best put in a layer which users could switch on or off since some users are vocal about only wanting to be in the here-and-now. I realize of course that all changes wished for represent work for people. Also, there would need to be some manner of sending the data to the historical layer ---maybe a checkbox during object-creation like "this site existed here in the past and leaves no readily-observable traces today" or some such. Those entries could be sent to the historical layer for those of us who love such things.
Perhaps there could be an Edit Map function for abandoned routes. I've often found myself outlining ghost railways and abandoned historical roadways only to have the polygons disappear except in Classic view ---I'm guessing because they're too long. A distinctive coloration and/or symbology for the abandoned routes could be useful.
A "this place is trivial" checkmark during object-creation would be helpful. It could send such polygons to that layer.
My thesis is that the ability to user-select layers of data and also the possibility of having the trivial and the now-invisible-history be present (if one wants) can make WM a truly significant site.
Those who want WM to just be another MapQuest will need to wait years for all of the data to be filled in ---so many places not yet added. So why not just go to MapQuest or GoogleMaps? The ability to polygonize McDonalds restaurants doesn't impress me; it seems like MapQuest "2.0" with user-generated ads in the form of fast-food tagging. Besides, such data is rapidly appearing on GoogleMaps and elsewhere already from phonebook data integration.
Those users with an interest in history ---and that almost always overlaps with interest in maps and of affect of geography upon specific historical battles, etc--- will drop away from WM if geographic-historical data is not welcome here.
Some polygons are only of interest to a local audience, but still such items should be present ("this item is trivial").
I think that users being able to select the layers of data they want to experience maximizes the personal-usefulness and also preserves low-audience data which could have future scholarly value.
Thanks to all who are thinking through the WM future goals ---strategy isn't be easy. |
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cramyourspam
Joined: 04/12/09
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(Reposting ---not sure which of these forums is the active one)
Here's another wish please:
For clicking on a category from the "Categories" menu to also pop up a sidebox (like our Watchlist sidebox or User Actions All sidebox) of such sites nearest to the current location. Usually selecting Interesting Places or some such Category is pointless unless zoomed close up in a major city. Otherwise, to zooming out to a distant view level in order to trawl around the globe for more such sites just makes the tiny Interesting Place icons vanish. |
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cramyourspam
Joined: 04/12/09
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| Hmmmm. I'm going to also wish for the "edit post" button on the forum to be usable more than once (or is it twice?) so I could remove my own just-noticed idotic typos like "strategy isn't be easy." |
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cramyourspam
Joined: 04/12/09
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Here's another wish: that the tagged item's pop-up info box be movable. Sometimes I want to see the area's article AND its outline at the same time.
And again: please and thank you. My wish = someone's labor. I understand that and appreciate the developers' efforts. |
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donotdisturb
Joined: 20/05/07
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| 16 years ago |
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| First and foremost, I'd like the developers to [u:2jjkon07]test their program code more thoroughly[/u:2jjkon07] before it's actually implemented, and respond to the users' requests in an [u:2jjkon07]expeditious manner[/u:2jjkon07] rather than mostly [u:2jjkon07]ignoring[/u:2jjkon07] them so as to maintain the project fully 'afloat' and, therefore, to keep their professional reputation untarnished. |
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cramyourspam
Joined: 04/12/09
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| Another wish please: I wish I could edit smaller roads ---ideally from within the Hybrid map. The system tells me to switch to Satellite view to edit, but that makes names and locations of all but the largest roads disappear and also allows changes only of the largest routes. Such roads seldom change, but the neighborhood streets evolve fairly regularly in college towns. I could really tweak road map accuracy if I could erase segments of existing small road (the ones that are whitish in Hybrid view). So many listed "roads" in regions I'm familiar with either no longer exist, have entire buildings over them, have been cut for 20 years, and/or are just terrain artifacts with no road present. I guess maybe I should just be content to let those at the map-making company who are paid to do that job DO that job, but I often feel like volunteering when I see map pseudostreets running through college dormatories and through churches, etc. |
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cramyourspam
Joined: 04/12/09
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PS
Maybe I'm a freak, but I actually ~like~ the ranking system. Feels pretty good to have started not so long ago and to have reached the top 500's out of the almost 400,000 users. |
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bio2935c
 Joined: 15/12/06
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@cramyourspam:
The thing about the Google hybrid view is that it's the GOOGLE hybrid view, and thus out of WM control. And the reason you can't draw WM roads over the Google hybrid view (the white roads are Google's) is that Google doesn't permit such derivative uses - basically stealing the Google data. |
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stcraftie59
Joined: 11/02/07
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| 16 years ago |
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>>Another wish please: I wish I could edit smaller roads ---ideally from within the Hybrid map.<<
There is a reason you cannot edit roads in Hybrid. It is a copyright infringement to copy information from a Google map. That is why you have Satellite, Satellite + old places to edit from. Google cannot copyright an image of the Earth. Look up copyright traps on Google sometime.
About the points system? As long as a user makes good tags with descriptions, then it's ok. But that is not the case for many others. They tag every tree, house, pool, etc. with speed tags.
Rank means next to nothing without quality tags. |
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denkraumverzerr
 Joined: 26/11/09
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| 16 years ago |
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| My wish is to get as much information as I can from the northern part of Ethiopia, transforming that information into tags, and then I want to spent a month in the end of the year in that wonderfull country and get as much fotos and further information back as I can. |
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