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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> 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

First time I hear that accusation. - If there's some truth to it then it 
certainly is that P1 was always presented as "the easy to use editor", 
and 0.6 introduced concepts that allowed our data, for the first time, 
to model more complex real-world situations. Which, needless to say, it 
is hard to write an "easy to use editor" for.

> I'm anxious that we don't make the 
> same mistake again.

Certainly enhanced API capabilities must neither be driven, nor 
hindered, by the capabilities or incapabilities of any one editor.

Bye
Frederik

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