better UI in JOSM to filter by date

[mikelmaron]

Filters works, but clumsy. Time slider?

[jeffreyameyer]

Meetings next week to see if we can make some progress here.

[jeffreyameyer]

Status update: looking for a developer.

Have had some discussions about possible providers over past year, but no luck.

[1ec5]

JOSM has an autofilter feature that makes it a little less clumsy to filter by start_date or end_date, but it only filters on one tag value at a time. You can’t filter down to only the features that existed in a particular year, let alone a range of years. In an area where features have been mapped across many years or the dates are given down to the day, the list of autofilters gets too long and there isn’t a way to select all the values in a given year. A new autofilter rule could be added to JOSM to ignore months and days in start_date and end_date, but that would be less granular than what’s possible in OHM’s iD fork.

Ticket #14965 tracks general improvements to the autofilter feature, but I think a list of buttons is probably not the right UI affordance for date keys, which can have so many valid values.

[Rub21]

I think it would greatly benefit to develop a JOSM plugin that incorporates date range filtering, similar to a time slider. This plugin could utilize the start and end dates extracted from the downloaded data, allowing users to adjust the time slider accordingly and apply data filters accordingly.
There is a JOSM plugin that extracts info from downloaded data: https://github.com/JOSM/osm-obj-info, for date range filtering it can be grouped and apply filters, according to the range date.