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

[Lester Caine]

Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>> As has been discussed before, we are not planning to add intrusive "Are you sure?" warnings to iD. Such second-guessing disrupts legitimate workflows and turns away new users, who typically already feel anxiety about doing something wrong.
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> with that approach (letting the users incidentally damage turn restrictions or other relations without warning by deleting members or combining them in a harmful way ) new users will get even more anxious as they will get mailed by others afterwards.
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> Relations are fragile and if they are almost hidden for the mapper a warning should be the minimal precaution (or alternatively don't let iD users do these kind of edits where relations are involved and would be damaged).

I used to get irritated by what seemed to be unnecessary warnings, but now I'd 
prefer to see even more of them. I could make a case for an 'expert' switch to 
disable them selectively, but that would be something I'd probably leave off. 
Often the warning is a prompt to cross check what one is doing.

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