Hi,
On 08/23/13 01:11, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Given the maintenance situation on P2, promoting iD seems like the
only way forward.
Web launch a JOSM session?
As an avid JOSM user and former member of the JOSM programming team I am
happy to see that JOSM is thriving.
Making the default "edit" action web-launch JOSM however would probably
be the end of that (and not just because of the technological issues of
web launch). Tons of newbies, overwhelmed by JOSM's broad array of
capabilities and the not-necessarily-simple user interface that comes
with it, would violate our data in ways that would make experienced
mappers hark back to the good old days when it was only Potlatch 1 that
people could do damage with. The limited available JOSM developer time
would quickly be used up by making every bit of JOSM "newbie proof", and
experienced users would complain about limitations introduced to reduce
potential damage.
Frankly I am quite happy that we have, in JOSM, an editor that, while
free for everyone to try out, does target the more demanding users, and
can therefor afford to be a little more demanding itself. An editor
where as a programmer you don't have to think about whether your users
know what a way or a node is and so on.
Bye
Frederik
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