[josm-dev] The Golden Rules

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Dirk Stöcker <openstreetmap at dstoecker.de>wrote:

> On one side JOSM is the accepted expert tool. It allows to use it in a
> very broad range of situations. I don't intent to limit that as e.g. Bryce
> suggests. OSM developed very well and very likely the high freedom is a
> major part in that development.
>

The suggestion actually involves no restriction of freedom.
The proposal was to display to the mapper the extent of unexamined mapping,
e.g.:

   You edited attributes on *536* nodes, and individually examined *3* of
them.


Perhaps that's just a note.  Or perhaps that comes with:

   You edited attributes on *536* nodes, and individually examined *3* of
them.
   [x] yes I feel this is compatible with the *mechanical edit policy*
   [CONTINUE]


It is pretty easy with JOSM to accidentally edit bulk edit attributes: in
fact it's a strength of JOSM to be able to make such sweeping changes.
Having a little meter that tells you what you've done is useful even to the
most expert mapper.  When I bulk correct tagging mistakes it is
my intent to examine every changed node visually.  While the TODO plugin
helps, this could develop into something even more useful.

(For the beginner editor equivalent see
https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/1735 ).