Welcome to the sixth OpenStreetMap NextGen development diary.

This week, I continued the preparation of the project for the first development release scheduled for the end of this month 🔨.

🔖 You can read my other development diaries here:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/NorthCrab/diary/

📖 This project is open-source and publicly available:
https://github.com/Zaczero/openstreetmap-ng

🛈 This independent initiative is not affiliated with the OpenStreetMap Foundation.

In Case You Missed It…

OpenStreetMap-NG is planned to have its first development release at the end of this month, May. After this milestone, the project will be open for new contributors! My current work focuses on delivering on that promise, finishing the core functionalities, and stabilizing the code.

Originally posted in diary #5.5.

Finishing Up the Elements Sidebar

The elements sidebar has been mostly finished. The “Part of” and “Members/Nodes” sections are now more consistent in design and have received pagination support. The orange-colored map visualization is also now working.

Preliminary API 0.7 /map Implementation

The data layer is now working and uses the new API 0.7 for map requests. It also utilizes the new rendering algorithm, which will provide much better performance than the current implementation, handling more elements in view. The new map view padding optimization also reduces the number of API requests when panning around, providing a smoother user experience.

Public Feature Ideas

I have also publicized some collected feature ideas on the GitHub Issues tracker. These currently include only medium and long-term ideas. Short-term ideas will be added closer to this month’s deadline. Some features embedded within the code will also be added to this list soon - currently it’s not exhaustive as it covers only my personal notes.

General Code Cleanup

This week, the code has undergone cleanup. The database usage for private structures has also been reduced. By switching from UUID to Snowflake ID-inspired type, the type now takes just 64 bits of space instead of 128 bits.

Project Sponsors 🏅

Time for the weekly appreciation of the current project patrons. Thank you, everyone, for supporting the project, including those who starred it on GitHub! We are making it real 😎.

Currently, the project is sponsored by 14 people!
Five private and four public donors on Liberapay, and five public on GitHub Sponsors.

• ~1847430, gileri (Eric G.), LaoshuBaby (快乐的老鼠宝宝), mutipg, RedAuburn (Harry Bond), ~1819511, AurimasF (Aurimas Fišeras), edpichler (Edu), starsep

If you can, please consider supporting the OpenStreetMap-NG development 🦀: