[OSM-talk] JOSM interface direction

[Christoph Eckert]

Hi,

> they just don't like WYSIWYG.

it's a usability problem. If you're editing text for printing, you can 
do WYSIWYG. If you're editing text in a database whicht gets used to 
create webpages (probably with different stylesheets), quotes and 
printes catalogues, you cannot do real WYSIWYG.

If you're editing map data for one single purpose, you can do sort of 
WYSIWYG. If you're collecting map data for various purposes, you cannot 
do real WYSIWYG.

The mappaint plugin helps a lot while editing (and thanks a bunch for 
your work on it), but if mappaint renders a secondary in yellow, the 
web renderer in brown and the PDF renderer in green, you have less 
chance to do real WYSIWYG.

Cheers,

ce