Extra RSS feed

Non-documented :

If you replace getRSSfeed with getRSSdirect in a feed link, you get a RSS feed with direct links to the bugs.

OpenStreetBugs Bug

Because of an old bug and its new side effect, OpenStreetBugs is not working well since a few hours: it's almost impossible to add a bug. I'll correct this bug as soon as possible. The side effect can disappear at anytime.

Sorry for the convenience.

Edit: Corrected.

It's raining French bugs...

Since the last hour, it's raining bugs in France.
Two articles (the same one in fact) about OpenStreetMap and OpenStreetBugs have been published on high traffic French news sites :
http://www.pcinpact.com
http://fr.news.yahoo.com

OpenStreetBugs RSS feed

OpenStreetBugs-Boxes RSS URL were like this :
http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/getPOIs?l=...&r=...&t=...&b=...&format=2

Please consider using the new URLs :
http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/getRSSfeed?l=...&r=...&t=...&b=...

After the storm.

The golem's storm has passed.
There have been some quota problems during the first hours of peak traffic. Thanks to AJAX, this was almost invisible for the users. The traffic has slowly decreased, and now, this is calm.

I made some small optimizations in the server-side code to consume less CPU.

This new kind of users was encouraging. Since now, this was mappers, who know how to map. This recent traffic was essentially non-mappers adding information in plain text about their own knowledge (name of street, restaurant, etc.). Near 1000 bugs have been put in the last 24 hours (essentially in Germany). Now, we've got a lot of work to correct them! :-)

Ouch!

OpenStreetBugs has been golemed.

Golem.de is a German tech news site which seems to have a great traffic. This morning, they put a news about OpenStreetBugs.... and I fear OSB will be down in a few hours due to quota explosion.

Sorry for the convenience.
I'll made my possible to keep OSB live.

Little hidden pages

Some hidden pages on OpenStreetBugs :

http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/links
http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/credits
http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/stats/lastTen

Works on IE

A special CSS stylesheet so that OpenStreetBugs now works even with IE.

Fewer bugs on OpenStreetBugs... well... not that bugs...

Thanks all for your encouragements on the mailing-list. :-)
I changed a lot of little things :
- GeoRSS feeds ;
- Permalink, markers-links ;
- closed marks are now visible for a week ;
- many tiny improvements concerning the GUI ;
- and many little bugs corrected.

Opening OpenStreetBugs

Have you ever wanted to convert a friend to OpenStreetMap ? A friend who has some good advices, a good knowledge of the streets... but who do not want to create an account, learn to use JOSM or Potlatch, and learn tags...

I made OpenStreetBugs for this. No account, very simple, very light. This is a simple tool for everybody to annotate OpenStreetMap.

Then, mappers can :
- open Potlatch centered on a note
- download a GPX dump of the visible notes to load in JOSM (or in your GPS)
- discuss about bugs
- etc...

Thanks to OpenLayers developers for their fantastic job.