[OSM-talk] What do you wish you'd known?

[Tirkon]

John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:

>On 20 March 2010 18:50, Tirkon <tirkon33 at yahoo.de> wrote:
>> The most annoying thing, I wish I had known before is, that editors
>> destroy things without any warning, but you do not have the chance, to
>> take notice of that fact.
>>
>> I.e. potlatch destroys the correct order of the ways in a route
>> relation, i.e. if you divide a way into two parts. And you do not have
>
>Relations in general are poorly handled at this point in time, and
>because they can't easily be shown graphically people don't deal with
>them as well as they should until it's too late and they've been told
>of the consequence of their action.
>
>Also as best as I can tell, JOSM handles ordering properly as long as
>all members of the relation are loaded.

Today I know all this. But I wish, I had known it before in answer to
Steve's question:

>>What are the thing or things you know know that you wish you'd 
>>known when you started with OpenStreetMap?