[Potlatch-dev] Status of potlatch2 development?

[tmcw]

To add on to Richard's comment:

One other vital purpose of P2 at this point is for backwards-compatibility
with OSM's significant percentage of IE users. iD isn't IE<10 compatible and
realistically cannot be, so having P2 and other editors as options is
essential.

Also, P2 is still a more advanced editor than iD and it's not clear that iD
will ever be as advanced for certain things. Richard points out external
vector sources, and I'd add on manual relation editing - iD will probably
try to handle certain relation-cases in UI-wrapped ways first.

That and of course, P2 is where we find smart implementations of everything
related to OSM.

Re: some of Steve's questions -

- are the internals at all similar to Potlatch?...

Yes and no - there's a similar concept of actions. Map rendering and the
data structure are entirely different. A few of the operations/algorithms
are directly ported from P2. Currently iD uses a converted version of P2's
imagery.xml file, but we'll probably switch to JOSM's or another source.

- is there a specified direction or policy on what kinds of advanced
features will be allowed in? Is iD intended only as a beginners'
editor? Can advanced features be included?

Yes, there are some advanced features. We're okay with sophisticated
features as long as they do not interrupt the gradual learning curve. So,
basic UX ground rules like 'everything must be mouse-accessible', 'no
unnecessary complicated terms', and so on. Hard to say much more than that
that's a hard and fast rule - it really goes feature-by-feature as far as
what's possibly intimidating versus what's user-friendly.

- has there been any discussion about an openstreetmap.org version vs
a MapBox version? Perhaps the former would have a different policy on
the previous question...

There are no plans (internal or external) about a 'MapBox version'. It's an
open source project, and the #1 goal is to get it on osm.org as a default
editor, for OSM, and to have a large base of contributors and users.

Tom



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