[OSM-talk] Why I don't use JOSM (was Re: Non-map-based OSM editor)

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 On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:24:48 +1100, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> 
 wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
>> I'm not quite sure why, but I really don't like JOSM.
>
> In my case I think it boils down to:
> 1) Complicated, idiosyncratic user interface. My brain just doesn't
> have space to learn new interfaces. Everything needs to behave the
> same.
> 2) Fragility. I tried fiddling with a plug in once and everything 
> just broke.
> 3) Poor performance. (On my environment anyway.)

 Performance is better than in the past (quadbuckets, varous other 
 improvements, ...), but there are still places when JOSM is slow, 
 especially once you have hundred of thousands or even millions of 
 primitives loaded (even if you work only on small part of them at once).

 But Potlatch is much slower, at least for me, once there are several 
 thousand primitives in view it will become quite unuseable.

> 4) General preference for online tools (so I don't need to 
> synchronise
> environments across different computers)

 I am not sure for newer potlatch, but the few times I was forced to use 
 it (why the hell there is undelete api available only for Potlatch and 
 not as XML?), it had not remembered any settings (so I have for example 
 to turn off the photo underlay again and again and again ...)

 Martin

> It looks like a fantastically powerful tool, and I wish all those who
> use it the very best. But I'm probably one of those few people who
> actually moved from JOSM *to* Potlatch.
>
> Steve