On 05/10/2020 08:57, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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On 5. Oct 2020, at 00:58, Michael Booth <boot...@gmail.com> wrote:
Not sure I'd recommend JOSM for a 100% OSM newbie unless there was a specific
reason or feature required when editing.
I would, because they will have to learn from scratch anyway, so why not
starting with the most popular (by numbers of edits), most powerful, most
versatile, closest to the community consensus and longest standing (i.e. most
reliable that it will remain) editor?
Telling potential new contributors that they need to use JOSM to
contribute to OSM will have two effects:
1. It'll put lots of people off contributing to OSM at all.
2. It'll cause lots of errors in OSM where people don't understand what
they're doing do things by accident.
All tools have their strengths and weaknesses and it makes sense to use
the right tool for the job in each case. JOSM is great for some things
- I regularly use 4 different OSM editors on a regular basis and by some
measure of "most edits" JOSM may well be "the editor that I use most",
but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who isn't familiar with the basics
in OSM at all yet. People need to find out how "what they see in the
real world" and "what they see on a map" relate to "what data is
actually in OSM" and JOSM really isn't good at explaining, or in some
cases even representing, that.
Best Regards,
Andy
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