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8. Mai 2013
Editing Maps in JavaScript
The OpenStreetMap project has launched an all-in-JavaScript map editor called "iD" this week:
![](http://blog.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/id_animated.gif)
While we at Mozilla know you can do a lot of good things in JS these days - after all, we're even launching our own phone OS building fully on HTML+JS, and we have been using more and more JS code to power key functionality in our browsers and other products over the years - it's great to see that complex things like editing maps can be done fully in JS and available for all platforms now, while previously it took proprietary and availability-limited technologies like Flash or Java to do the same thing.
Great work, OpenStreetMap guys!![smile :)](data:image/gif;%20charset=binary;base64,R0lGODlhEwATAKIAAP//AMzMAGZmAP8zAAAAAP///wAAAAAAACH5BAEAAAUALAAAAAATABMAAANVWLrUTisyEoC1oUlFr8dQRHykFRad+Y0gdzlv86KVKdsskOUAjHu312rFK5GCRWDMJDACBKxGrTcFXTIo4CPY41QJgzAP69IWT14nWSL97DaiLVqRAAA7)
(And yes, as a contributor to OpenStreetMap and even OSMF member, I am biased, but free and open map data on the web fits Mozilla philosophy pretty well anyhow...)
![](http://blog.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/id_animated.gif)
While we at Mozilla know you can do a lot of good things in JS these days - after all, we're even launching our own phone OS building fully on HTML+JS, and we have been using more and more JS code to power key functionality in our browsers and other products over the years - it's great to see that complex things like editing maps can be done fully in JS and available for all platforms now, while previously it took proprietary and availability-limited technologies like Flash or Java to do the same thing.
Great work, OpenStreetMap guys!
(And yes, as a contributor to OpenStreetMap and even OSMF member, I am biased, but free and open map data on the web fits Mozilla philosophy pretty well anyhow...)
Von KaiRo, um 16:12 | Tags: JavaScript, Mozilla, OSM | 3 Kommentare | TrackBack: 0