[josm-dev] Difference between JOSM and JOSM-NG

Dirk Stöcker openstreetmap at dstoecker.de
Sun Aug 10 22:27:24 BST 2008


On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote:

>> Help me to understand - what is the difference between JOSM and JOSM-NG?
>> I tried to find a mention in the internet about josm-ng, but unsuccessfully.
>
> JOSM-NG has a much cleaner design and is much faster, but it doesn't yet
> have as much functionality as JOSM has, so people still use JOSM to edit
> data.

To me rewrites look like dead-born projects most of the time. Why not 
fix josm instead? I never understood, why total rewrites from scratch 
should be useful. Every software can be moved to a new and better design 
step by step.

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