On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > MOTD says: > > "JOSM now supports keeping multiple changesets open simultaneously on > the server. If you want to change something you notice while making an > unrelated change you can now tag that change correctly." > > Could whoever wrote that please re-write it so that normal users can > understand it? Not even I understand what this is supposed to mean. > Maybe link to a Wiki page that explains why this feature is useful, and > how it is supposed to be used?
I wrote that. I thought that the JOSM MOTD was way too cryptic for normal users with comments like "Nice mouse pointer icons in delete mode as well.". I see that my best-faith efforts to write understandable changelogs have fallen somewhat short of the mark howewer. And perhaps not, I don't think you classify as a normal user :) When you keep a changeset open on the server and keep uploading to it you're essentially pushing things to a stack you can't pop things off again. Multiple changesets means that you can have multiple stacks at a time. Changesets are from a user perspective just a handy feature to group related edits together. Having multple changesets open at the same time means that you can tagg your edits with greater granularity. For instance I may be making some multi-hour edit where I'm tracing lakes from landsat imagery. If I come across something else in the process of doing so, like a way that's not connected to another way I can open another changeset for that minor fix without contaminating my giant "Trace from landsat" edit with non-landsat related edits. So that's what the feature gives you. Now someone just has to explain all that in a paragraph or so, or turn my ramblings into a documentation page. _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
