[Potlatch-dev] [OpenStreetMap] #4902: Warnings for deleting/merging relation members

[Richard Fairhurst]

On 14/02/2014 17:44, Fernando Trebien wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I was wondering when is it that Potlatch will be considered officially
> deprecated.

There is no intention at all to "deprecate" P2.

Since newbie users are best-served by iD, the best thing you, as an OSM 
contributor, can do to prevent mapping mistakes is to add Internet 
Explorer support to iD so that new users are always presented with that. 
And, of course, you're very welcome to submit patches to P2 to address 
any issues you perceive with it.

Every editor has its pitfalls. iD has the "unintentional selection of 
areas" thing, JOSM has the "too easy for people to make bulk edits" 
thing, and so on. FWIW I noticed someone in #osm-gb earlier saying that 
they preferred P2 to other editors for route relations because it makes 
them more obvious, so your opinion is not necessarily universally 
shared. Diversity is good.

Richard