[OSM-dev] A new take on the "mutable" idea

[Karl Newman]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Stefan de Konink <stefan at konink.de> wrote:

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> Frederik Ramm wrote:
> > Of course this does in no way give security but it could be a way to
> > spot mishaps. I'd fully expect editors to support the scheme sooner or
> > later, popping up "are you sure and do you want me to set the magic tag
> > for you" questions when the user tries to change a special object.
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> I think without to be captain obvious, implementing layers is *much
> more* important for preventing datacorruption by incidental mistakes.
> Even if you do implement layers, you could make a layer read-only (by
> default) when a tag is found.
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> But even then, most people would be jumping and dancing if there
> something as filtering to show what is important and hide what is
> irrelevant for the editor (the person).
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> Stefan
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+1 for layers. That way we could import large, dense data sets such as
parcel outlines (for example) without getting in the way of people who want
to work on something else. Even better if they could be shown as a
background.

Karl
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