[josm-dev] Common presets for OSM editors?

[Ian Dees]

I created a repo to keep track of this here:
https://github.com/osmlab/editor-presets

I understand Dirk and the JOSM team's position, so let's stop clogging up
their inboxes and take further discussion to tickets on this repo?

To get started, I like your suggestion, Daniel; let's start with the core,
make it transformable to the existing editor preset styles, and then expand
where needed. I'm indexing the existing formats here:
https://github.com/osmlab/editor-presets/issues/1


On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Daniel Koć <daniel at koć.pl> wrote:

> 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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