[OpenSeaMap-develop] new mask for josm-plugin toms

[Werner K. <wkg...@go...>]

Hello,

last weekend I started with the internationalisation of toms. Therfore I 
saw often the new mask of Malcom, which
he presented on this list a few days ago (but I don't find the thread 
and therefor I have make a new one). I can't
say that I am happy with this mask. Let me explain why:

1. The mask ist overloaded. Too much information with not enough amount 
of space.
2. The user isn't really guided to make his tags
3. The mask has only a marginale similarity with the mask used by the 
online editor (imo it has a better design).
Therefor there is no corporate identity in this OpenSeamap-project.

A good thing is the division of types in two parts.

But the question is, how can we managed so many needed information in a 
well-arranged mask. Only to make the
mask bigger, isn't really a good idea, because a bigger mask hide more 
of the josm-layers, which contains the
fundamental osm-data. Therefor I think, we have to reduce the 
information by hiding them in "submasks", which
appears only if needed. Perhaps a triangle is a good mark for those 
"submasks".

Or perhaps we make a bar on the left hand side of the mask, where we can 
swap the context
(say one context will be the types of buoys,  the next context will be 
the topmarks and the third context will be the ligths.
Perhaps we need an additional context for the the foghorn and similar 
things as radar etc.)
Therefore the mask may divided in three parts, the left hand bar, a 
dynamical part and a static part. You need the
dynamical part to input the information and this part is changed by 
every context-switching. The static part
show the picture of the seamark and some important information. There is 
no need to backup this part by
context-switching. This part depends only on the information, which 
describe the seamark. Perhaps we can marked
the context in the left hand bar with small thumbnails.
(I have seen analogous masks on screens, where you can make the settings 
(intensity, contrast, colour, etc.). They
are called OSD - on screen display)

Also we needed a better coordination between the two groups 
(online-editor / offline-editor).

More ideas are welcome. Let us collect them.

So long

Werner