A New Editor for OpenStreetMap: iD

Re:A New Editor for OpenStreetMap: iD by bcks on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @08:35AM (#5170533)

It runs on Node.js and is open source, too: https://github.com/systemed/iD/

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Re:A New Editor for OpenStreetMap: iD by yellowbkpk on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @10:49AM (#5171231)

I think you're seeing package.json and leaping to Node.js. I think they use the Node package management to help during build.

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Re:A New Editor for OpenStreetMap: iD by bcks on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @10:52AM (#5171254)

My bad. It also mentions node as a test harness: https://github.com/systemed/iD/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

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Re:A New Editor for OpenStreetMap: iD by lxbarth on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @10:27AM (#5171090)

Sorry, no node.js here ;) The beauty of iD is that it's all client-side Javascript. No dynamic server components involved.

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Re:A New Editor for OpenStreetMap: iD by NathanKP on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @01:16PM (#5172184)

How do the maps get saved then? Or is that part of it still in the works?

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Re:A New Editor for OpenStreetMap: iD by jfirebaugh on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @01:29PM (#5172276)

It's fully functional, and you can switch over to the live OpenStreetMap database by clicking 'dev' in the lower right. Loading and saving data happens via an XHR request to the OpenStreetMap API hosted on http://www.openstreetmap.org. The API supports CORS, making direct cross-origin connections possible.

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