Andy, thanks so.much for running these numbers!
On Sep 13, 2013 8:20 PM, "SomeoneElse" <li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk> wrote:

> Previously (in https://lists.openstreetmap.**org/pipermail/talk/2013-**
> August/067936.html<https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2013-August/067936.html>)
> I had a quick count-up of new user errors in bits of GB that I'm familiar
> with for the month before iD became the default editor for most browsers.
>
> I've done the same again (for the period 20/8/2013 to 13/9/2013), for most
> of which iD has been
> the default editor for most new users.
>
>                                  P2  iD  JOSM  Other (Wheelmap / Go Map! /
> POI+)
> Made no newbie errors            15  55     2  4
> Made at least one newbie error   20  43     0  4
> Made more serious errors          1   3     1  0
>
> One slight caveat with the numbers is that while it's usually possible to
> spot typical P2 "newbie errors" such as unjoined roads before they've
> rendered, it's less easy to do so with some iD errors, such as "not
> assigning a main tag to something that has been named" or the "accidental
> orthogonalisation" issue that can result from https://github.com/systemed/
> **iD/issues/542 <https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/542>.  For
> example, 
> http://api06.dev.**openstreetmap.org/browse/**changeset/30953<http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/30953>(on
>  the dev server) resulted in
> http://api06.dev.**openstreetmap.org/browse/way/**4295036579<http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/4295036579>,
> but until they're rendered such issues are difficult to spot, so iD's "Made
> at least one newbie error" number may perhaps be slightly higher.  I'm sure
> it's not half as big again though, which it would need to be for iD's new
> user error rate to be the same as P2's.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>
>
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