[josm-dev] restrict mass-editing?

[Gregory Williams]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Amos [mailto:zerebubuth at gmail.com]
> Sent: 31 March 2009 12:09
> To: Gregory Williams
> Cc: josm-dev
> Subject: Re: [josm-dev] restrict mass-editing?
> 
> 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.

Yes, I'm for having a warning with a configurable threshold. It'd be
great to have a warning if you attempt to move a similarly large number
of objects in unison as well, but I'm not quite sure how that'd operate
since a pop up window would take the focus away from the drag operation
that's in progress.

Gregory