[OSM-talk] The OSM Applet - let's ditch it for JOSM (was: Mapping Reading, some impressions)

[Nick Hill]

The applet would probably have been developed to something faster, more 
user friendly and featureful if it were the only interface we could use.

The emergence of JOSM has probably stopped development of the applet. 
Not so much though the re-direction of coding skills, but through us 
die-hard users no longer having itches about it's performance, interface 
and, compared to JOSM, restricted feature set.

If seasoned users are not prepared to put up with the shortcomings of 
applet, then perhaps we shouldn't expect new users to do so either. I 
haven't seen a good argument why new users shouldn't use best of breed 
tools.

Tom Carden, I am in no way undermining the admirable work you have put 
into the applet. I believe it has been an important step in the 
evolution of OSM. I am simply making the point that because it is no 
longer the tool of choice, and it has not been getting the attention it 
needs, perhaps Tom Chance is correct in his opinion that presenting it 
as the default editing interface causes more harm than good.


Tom Carden wrote:
> On 04/09/06, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:
>> The web applet sucks.
>>
> 
> Speaking as the person who wrote the initial version of the current
> applet...