[HOT] Difficulty in communicating with iD users

[Jo]

If you'd need to relearn iD, invest some time in learning JOSM, you'll be
glad you did. It's true that it is somewhat more userfriendly to not use
British road classifications, but now it becomes harder to make the switch
to JOSM, that contributors who become more involved with OSM will
invariably (have to) make at some point.

My take on this is that we should teach JOSM right from the start during
Mapathons.

But that is also due to me not being familiar with iD, so I couldn't teach
it, if I tried. I only see the oddities like buildings that end up as
area=yes, or that aren't rectangular, because that takes quite a bit of
effort to do, over and over again in iD.

Lately it's stuff like amenity_1=... that produces bad data.

Polyglot


2016-03-05 8:25 GMT+01:00 Natfoot <natfoot at gmail.com>:

> As an Editor that uses ID exclusively for edits I can confirm that ID has
> changed in the past three days.  I have not made edits yet that are using
> the new icons as I will need to relearn ID and be able to teach it at the
> next Missing Maps meetup.
>
> Nathan P
> email: natfoot at gmail.com
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 11:15 PM, Suzan Reed <suzan at suzanreed.com> wrote:
>
>> All the tags in iD have changed.
>>
>> There is no longer Road or Unclassified Road. I have no idea what a
>> “minor road” is, and it doesn’t match anything in OSM or HOT tags. Other
>> tags have disappeared as well including Water, etc.
>>
>> These strange new tags need to be changed back to the ones that were in
>> iD so it matches everything else in OSM and HOT. Who can do that?
>>
>> Suzan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 4, 2016, at 8:53 PM, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
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>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I assumed there was an "unclassified" road icon in iD as the tag is
>> highway=unclassified, however, iD calls that a "Minor Road" but gives it
>> the highway=unclassified k=v.
>>
>> iD does have an icon for "unclassified road", does that not result in  a
>> k=v of "highway=unclassified"?
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