hi, the ArcGIS osm editor can handle layers, and from what i heard (wiki page review) that is works well.
IMO generally, osm works as a flat sheet of paper, were people of all skill levels can work on the map at the same time. So having osm like a complex arcgis editor, makes it harder for the general users to use, even josm is very difficult for the standard users. So the simpler the better, AFAIK I agree, having a standard set of key/value pairs across all eis/renders would help everyone, including a predefined list in the filter box. Which is why im working on that effort, i'll include getting a top 50 or so set of tags that are most popular and could be used for the filter presets. cheers, sam On 9/4/10, Zeke Farwell <ezeki...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:32 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer > <dieterdre...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> yes, but it get's even harder when the information is split over >> several layers and you do edits without even seeing the data, because >> it is on a different layer. How could you maintain integrity and >> topology? > > > I think it could be harder or it could be easier depending on how it's done. > If you allowed ways on different layers to share nodes then it would be > quite possible to edit an object on one layer and modify an object on > another by accident. Not good. For this reason I would want layers to be > completely separate. As long as they are separate and represent different > types of objects that don't need to be connected then I don't really see any > problems. But if the community at large has decided against layers in the > past I'm interested to hear why. > > Zeke > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #osm-ca Canadian OSM channel (an open chat room) @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk