[OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

[colliar]

Hey,

Why do we set a default editor right from the beginning and do not let
the user decide ?

I think it depends on the individual which editor fits to whom. I met
several people who know how to work with GUIs but are not familiar with
OSM. All had no problem getting along with JOSM right away and some
where looking for features like "filter", "purge", "export to file/gpx"
and "printing".

The international student projects on several highschool across Europe
did only use JOSM and it work, too.

A short description of iD, Potlatch2, JOSM and Merkaartor with links
would be nice.

Cheers
Colliar


On 16.08.2013 08:59, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     it has been proposed to make the newly released iD v1.1 the default
> editor on openstreetmap.org, meaning that if someone doesn't explicitly
> chose an editor they will open iD instead of Potlatch.
> 
> Refer to the previous thread "In the works: iD 1.1" for details on that
> release.
> 
> The relevant GitHub "pull request" is here:
> 
> https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/453
> 
> It is likely that this "pull request" will be "merged" (i.e. accepted
> and incorporated into the OSM web site) in the near future unless there
> are important reasons not to.
> 
> Bye
> Frederik
> 


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