[OSM-talk] Editor without relation-support makes sense?

[Anthony]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Seventy 7 <seventy7 at operamail.com> wrote:

> > > Tirkon wrote:
> > > > I found some discussions within OSM, that it would make sense to
> offer
> > > > an OSM editor especially for beginners. To make it easy enough, they
> > > > should not confuse the beginner with complicated stuff like relations
> > > > and thus not show and support them. But does that make sense?
>
> No, quite the reverse. The use of relations should only increase over time,
> but what is needed from the next generation of editors is to hide all of
> this background database detail.
>
> For instance, I don't want to create a relation of type multipolygon, I
> want to create an area; I don't want to create a relation of type route, I
> want to add a way to a route and so on.
>

Excellently put.


> Imagine a proper WYSIWYG editor - you would simply draw an island in a lake
> and say "let it be grass" and the editor will do all the stuff with
> multipolygons in the background (creating them if necessary) to make it so.
> The user shouldn't need to know.


Yes.  I'd like very much, for instance, to be able to create a multipolygon
lake using a paint (and eraser) tool.  The editor should then be able to
create the way(s) and put them into a multipolygon.  This would make it much
easier to trace lakes.
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