[josm-dev] restrict mass-editing?

[Matt Amos]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Gregory Williams
<gregory.williams at purplegeodesoftware.co.uk> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: josm-dev-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:josm-dev-
>> bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Bennett
>> Sent: 31 March 2009 11:46
>> To: Frederik Ramm
>> Cc: josm-dev
>> Subject: Re: [josm-dev] restrict mass-editing?
>>
>> Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> > currently it is possible to "select all" and then set a tag for tens
>> > of thousands of objects at the same time. Do you think we should do
>> an
>> > alert box saying "you are editing 12.345 objects. are you sure you
>> want
>> > this?" - or maybe just disallow it altogether?
>>
>> Or remove "Select All" completely? Are there any legitimate uses for
>> this? I've only ever used it to find out how much of an area I've
>> contributed :)
>
> That wouldn't really prevent a Select All though. It's easy to just
> craft an appropriate search to achieve the same effect, or simply use
> the selection tool to draw a box around everything.

indeed. i don't think frederik was suggesting that features are
removed, just warn the user that they might have selected more objects
than they thought.

i think its a good idea. if the limit is settable in expert
preferences then so much the better. it helps protect inexperienced
users and doesn't get in the way of advanced users.

cheers,

matt