This is good we have a quality control mechanism even if it is a blunt instrument, and we think the risk is low on the TRA side.
Thank you for your input. Cheerio John On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 at 19:07, Andy Townsend <ajt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/04/2019 23:37, john whelan wrote: > > > Developing an editor requires making decisions and having opinions on > OSM tagging. This in turn means getting it wrong sometimes. > > ... > With something like iD spoon feeding new mappers with suggested presets > the impact is much greater if something isn't quite right or the > "directions" are not crystal clear and let's face it not all mapper's first > language is English and reading through instructions is not fashionable in > some quarters. > > That's not borne out by what I see with a DWG hat on - we get to see quite > a lot of complaints about problems caused by new mappers, and complaints > about mistagging due to an editor preset in iD is pretty rare. New mappers > making faux pas due to misunderstanding JOSM, on the other hand, is pretty > common. That doesn't mean that one editor is inherently "good" and the > other "bad" - they're different tools for different jobs. > > Best Regards, > > Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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