[OSM-dev] Add an iD link to the Potlatch no-Flash screen
SomeoneElse
lists at mail.atownsend.org.uk
Mon Apr 22 11:00:47 UTC 2013
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
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