[OSM-dev] Add an iD link to the Potlatch no-Flash screen

[SomeoneElse]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
> I think the situation was not exactly comparable when Potlatch started 
> but I would like to add a caveat; Potlatch did have quite a number of 
> limitations plus a couple of bugs when it started and while these 
> weren't considered "catastrophically breaking stuff" they had enough 
> undesirable side effects that many people have a very negative view of 
> Potlatch to this day, and (especially in the German community) blaming 
> Potlatch for every problem that mappers cause was almost a knee-jerk 
> reaction for a long time.

Many of the "anti-Potlatch" comments were/are really "anti-newbie" 
comments - getting the hang of any new activity takes time and practice!

Looking at the recent editors in GB a few of the ones making newbie 
mistakes are using iD (5 since end Feb), but there don't seem to be any 
"characteristic" errors such as "adding a node that duplicates a 
building way" or "not joining path X to road Y", which happens with some 
newbies and P2.

The errors by new iD editors that I have seen have included a bit of 
boundary deleted by mistake, naming a thing as it's description (e.g. 
"Footpath"), name nodes that presumably should be on a street that 
aren't, nodes duplicating ways in the same changeset, and some 
duplicated tram stations (by a _really_ early iD version - not sure 
that's relevant).  I've not seen anything that says "iD can't appear as 
an editor on the editor list because...".

Cheers,
Andy