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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 23.01.2021 um 22:01 schrieb Mateusz
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<div>Also, some diversity is useful. Otherwise "all developers
work on JOSM or iD" <br>
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<div>would be the optimal development strategy right now.<br>
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<p>Well when the OSMF has completed its mobile support in iD that
could actually very well be the outcome. JOSM is in slow decline,
but will probably continue to make sense for some more years. Just
to underline the later point: 2020 was the first year the main
browser embedded editor (that is iD + Rapid) had more the 50% of
JOSMs edit count. <br>
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<p>The OSMF has naturally many times said something similar, but the
full version is "we welcome diversity (as long as it takes place
on somebodies elses payroll)". And nb, I completely agree that is
what makes economic sense, but they should leave the euphemistic
nonsense away. <br>
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<div>I maintain app for 1 person (StreetComplete fork) and I
consider it well spend time<br>
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<div>that is even time-efficient given editing that I am doing :)<br>
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<p>Obviously a private app doesn't quite fit in to these
considerations, and the impact is negligible in any case. There
are other issues with private apps that fly under the radar, but
they are not development related. <br>
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<p>Simon<br>
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<div>This is not an argument against change and improvements,
but about leaving ones ego aside and investing the time and
effort in to bettering existing applications. BTW just as I
did when I decided to invest time in to improving an existing
app, instead of creating a new one.<br>
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<div>BTW, thanks for that! Vespucci is really useful.<br>
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<div>This doesn't apply just to editing software, it is
(somewhat driven by the nature of OSM and historically little
central software development) rampant all over the place, for
example notoriously geocoding software where there seems to be
at leas a couple of new entrants every year which then go away
again just as fast.<br>
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<div>And to be clear I agree that OSM ecosystem would benefit from
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<div>more people going "lets improve existing project".<br>
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