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

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Tuesday 05 Sep 2006 14:31, Tom Carden wrote:
> Nick Hill wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Nick Hill, no worries.  I was suggesting the same thing myself. Nick
> Black's stats do show that there is some overlap that needs explaining
> before we act though.
>
> Like you, I think that if there is one client it will receive more
> attention - JOSM might benefit from a (optional) landsat view and an
> osmarender-like "map" view, for example, if people couldn't get those
> things from the applet.  Imi was getting pretty close to a 1.4-compatible
> version at one point, and also to an applet version.  We can do this.

I'm not so sure we should have just the one client though. I still think there 
is a need for multiple clients: an easy-to-use client, probably web-based, 
which abstracts Map Features away from users, plus a more advanced, 
standalone client for advanced users.

Nick