[josm-dev] Common presets for OSM editors?

[Daniel Koć]

W dniu 22.06.2015 17:30, Dirk Stöcker napisał(a):
> 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

Pity. ={ While I understand everybody wants her/his own way of doing 
things, having a universal common "source" and maybe just transforming 
it to local "destination" formats could be a way to go. We have so much 
presets in JOSM today (and I speak of just the core ones), that when I 
want to translate them, I need a few minutes each time to determine if 
there's anything new - let alone to check all the options inside the 
presets - so managing it gonna be more and more problematic.

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

I'm aware of it, but nobody said they have to use the full set - just 
like nobody is using/rendering all the tags on Wiki, but it's still very 
useful as a common source for picking what you like. The more resources 
can be shared, the less effort spent on duplicating them.

On the positive side - the problem is at least visible, so it's more 
probable it will be resolved one day.

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