I suspect that a large part of the problem is in the delay between making an edit and being able to see it rendered on the map.
Maybe if Katie had been able to see the effects of her edits on the map immediately she would have stopped and reverted them herself. On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Jo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Fairhurst schreef: > > Ulf Lamping wrote: > > > > > >> This all sounds you're trying to cure the pain of not using buffered > >> editing with adding another concept that will add another layer of > >> confusion ... > >> > > > > Fine. I'm really not going to attempt and convince anyone here - one > > has to be a bit of a pig-headed UI fascist to develop stuff like > > this, otherwise you end up with design by committee which just > > doesn't work. > > > > I think it's good that we offer editors that work in different ways; > > that there is more than one answer to the questions of "how's stuff > > written to the db and how do I avoid causing damage", although > > Potlatch doesn't adequately answer those questions yet; and that > > those who are arguing for a "save" button are trying to impose a > > model which doesn't suit Potlatch. You and Frederik and doubtless > > others disagree - as shown by the fact that you find something > > "painful" while I actively prefer it. That's fine, there's no > > monopoly on editors. I don't feel it's impossible to have a usable > > editor that doesn't work on the "prepare and commit" principle, and > > that's what I'm concentrating on building. > > > Keep up the good work Richard! > > Polyglot (who uses both editors; JOSM for initial entering of > data/Potlatch for fine tuning afterwards and aligning on Yahoo! imagery) > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- Tel: +44(0) 7814 517 807
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