[OSM-talk] State of JOSM

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> > However, I won't argue that the current way needs improvements as well,
> > e.g. IMHO we desperately need a *delete action* in addition to the
> > delete mode (at least I don't need the delete mode most of the time, but
> > would need a delete action to delete single items).
> 
> "Delete mode"?  Interesting, that's obviously why JOSM yesterday
> told me that it is going to delete a highway with 5 nodes ;-)
> Because I did not know about this, I press "ok" ;-(

> It is a usability disaster to implement such interface changes

JOSM has had a delete mode for at least one full year now (and likely
from the beginning). So this is one thing that hasn't changed.

> BTW, I'm always wondering why JOSM displays all changes in the
> commit dialog and let me select them one by one, but does
> not seem to pay attention to such a selection (it always
> commits all pending changes).  At least, that's how it
> looks to me.

JOSM can only ever upload all your changes sequentially because it
does not keep track of which changes are in relation to which. For
example, if you first create a way and later change its name, the
change cannot be uploaded without upoading the creation first. 

I'll disable selection in the list of edits; it conveys the wrong
message. I wasn't even aware that it is possible!

Bye
Frederik

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