openstreetmap
Notes: Filter / Only notes I contributed to
The analysis at https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/diary/43057 suggests that a lot of notes are personal notes. I sometimes use them this way as well as a kind of reminder.
The UI could help with that by providing a filter that only shows notes that I contributed to (created or commented).
One way for this might be to extend the UI where I activate the notes layer to a radio button group
(x) No notes (..) All notes (..) Notes that I contributed to
However, such a UI would not extend well with something like https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/5171
@bhousel, @tordans, and @manfredbrandl, I've started working on preliminary filters for the notes layer. You can take a look at the notes-filtering branch. Settings are found by clicking the ellipses next to the notes layer under Map Data.
@thomas-hervey great to see progress on this, thanks. I tried running it locally to test it out but did not manage to get it working. Might be just my tech skills. Just in case I will email you a screen-grab video; maybe that helps finding a bug that is not just for me locally.
Just a few first thoughts based on your screenshot:
a. What will the indicator look like that tells me "this nodes layer has active filter" once the notes-data-settings-layer is closed? Does the UI element allow a light gray subline to list the filter?
b. Is status and status-daterange really something different? Right now I could miss-configure "status open + status daterange closed before 12/12/2012".
- An easy solution might be to just have the date range in the second block and derive the status from the first block. The label could then be "Notes <status,eg"opened"> after" (Min) and "Notes <status,eg"opened"> before" (Max).
- Other UI elements would be even nicer, but I think also a lot more UI-work.
c. Is the usecase of "Maximum" daterange really important? It makes the filter quite a bit harder to understand. I think the main use case is "show recent notes", so only the min-filter.
Thanks @tordans,
a. There isn't an indicator yet, but I plan to add an indicator for hidden notes, like that of hidden features:
b. I think the status & status date-range are different because a user may want to look at a combination. For example, if I want to look at notes that have been previously closed but are currently open (having been reopened), I think it's best to have two selectors. But I am still working on this list of options. c. I agree, a min & max isn't necessarily the best option. I was experimenting with date pickers and thought that it allowed the best fine tuning. However, moving the max date range could certainly be done.
There are quite some workflows, like mapping parties, or tools like Tasking Manager or MapRoulette which use hashtags for traceability.
So, OSM Notes should also be filtered by a free text and/or a hashtag.
I would like to add a suggestion. And that is to show notes with a different colour such as orange if they have comments. Reason is that when I'm closing notes I want to close all the red notes, but some of them I've questioned the notes what they mean, so then It would be helpful to have a different colour to distinguish them from other notes.
