On 20 March 2010 22:52, Tirkon <tirko...@yahoo.de> wrote: > The problem is, that - as far as I know - every person may offer an > editor. If this is true, with more and more editors the problem will > grow in future. Cause one popular editor, that is not aware and does > not follow these roules, could be one editor too much, because it > could damage OSM-database and in particular the laborious relations > considerably.
While this is a problem, the issue is more prominent with popular editors, currently based on the majority of usage there is only 2 main editors, JOSM and Potlatch with Merkaartor a distant 3rd, get them working properly and that will fix at least 90% of potential problems, from there you have the long tail effect... Might be also worth noting while potlatch has most users, JOSM has most edits... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editor_usage_stats > And because of required special registration and possibly paying money > for the editor-software, it will be more and more hard, to test and > bugfix them. And what will be, if the coder is not willing or able to > fix? Buggy editors have been blocked in the past, the more harm software does the more likely it will get blocked. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
