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

[Jason Remillard]

Hi,

Since everybody is pilling onto this, here is my 2 cents.

I find the P2 editor completely unusable, it is too slow, its is very
hard to use, and requires me to enable a completely insecure plugin to
run. I would not be involved in the project if I did not discover JOSM
shortly after starting. It is not like P2 is a joy to use.

I look around my area and there are 100's of people that made an
account and either made no changes or just one change and left. The
map is not even close to being completed or perfect. I would be
*delighted* to fix a couple broken relations or remap something that
was deleted by mistake, if we could get more mappers in my area. We
need more people mapping more than anything else.

ID's first impressions are so much better than P2, it is a
no-brainier, make it the default. Do it now.

Also, for what its worth, I have fixed more new mapper mistakes done
in P2 than ID since ID went live.

Jason







On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> 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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