[josm-dev] Common presets for OSM editors?

[Daniel Koć]

W dniu 19.06.2015 18:18, Bryce Nesbitt napisał(a):
> A while back I wrote scripts to build a _grid_ of preset support (base
> on parsing the source code of each editor).  I use that on occasion to
> identify and argue in favour of adding certain presets.

Cool, thanks for this work, Bryce!

But if there are no big obstacles, it'd be even easier if the set is 
common. That doesn't exclude having some local presets for example for 
testing purposes, of course; still - why not test them on all the 
platforms from day one?

> I think the bigger constraint on OSM growth though is not presets, but
> rendering support.  There are good communities of mappers and features
> which have presets, but are rendered nowhere.

This is another very important thing IMO. I miss "mappers' map" (working 
map) idea and for some time I try to add at least icons for very common 
types of shops to our default map style, but even this simple thing was 
no that welcome. However the opposition never took the time to explain 
what is the problem with it.

I try to make more connections between different parts of OSM community 
and subprojects. Having common set of presets used by at least the most 
important editors and documented on Wiki with some reference "working" 
map (which may not be beautiful, but rather show as much different 
elements as it's possible - like all these presets) would be really 
great exercise in OSM internal coherency and interoperability!

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