[OSM-dev] "The Future of Areas" - open discussion?

[Richard Fairhurst]

Ben Supnik wrote:
> wouldn't an editor already have a cherent and intuitive UI in the form
> of multipolygon relation editing?

P2 doesn't yet have a specialised interface for drawing a multipolygon. 
I'm intending to add a toolbox icon for one in the medium term (draw two 
closed ways; select both; click 'make multipolygon'). But as P2 is 
largely modeless, this wouldn't be much use as a generic area drawing tool.

I've had a few outline thoughts about how area drawing could work in P2, 
but would counsel those who think "oh, it must be easy" that not every 
editor works in quite the same way as theirs. Moving to 0.6 was pretty 
traumatic for P1, largely IMO because it was driven by JOSM authors who 
did what made sense for their tool. I'm anxious that we don't make the 
same mistake again.

cheers
Richard