[josm-dev] Common presets for OSM editors?

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Daniel Koć wrote:

> And I'm still curious why JOSM developers didn't like the idea and if there's 
> a possibility to reconsider it?

There are many reasons, small and larger ones, but most of them result in 
the fact that no editor development team wants to give up their own 
infrastructure in favor of something else. We already had these 
discussions with Merkaartor and Potlatch in the past and something 
similar with iD.

JOSM for many years (from the beginning) documents all the data 
formats it uses and it is easy usable XML. Nevertheless nobody ever 
bothered to simply use these files - everybody starts their own 
infrastructure and own file formats.

Even efforts to unify at least the data when its impossible to unify the 
infrastructures itself seem to fail, so I wouldn't expect a major progress 
in unified presets anywhere in near future.

And yes we constantly have a look at these topics, but dropping what we 
have in favor of something else is extremely unlikely, especially as there 
was much work put into it and as far as I know there exists nothing as 
powerful as our data format specs and the community integration to create 
data for it (presets, styles, rules, maps).

Nevertheless, when you compare editor presets and find something is solved 
better for another editor open a JOSM ticket and we'll fix it (also if you 
find something without looking at another editor :-).

But also remember that the editors have different targets, so even if all 
above could be solved, the data probably never can match fully.

Ciao
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