[OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

[Dave F.]

On 24/05/2013 12:15, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>
> I don't regularly use iD myself (JOSM user), but, on behalf of its 
> developers: negative comments like this are unhelpful and denigrate 
> the vast amount of hard work that has gone into producing the editor. 
> If you don't like it, complain about it to your friends in private, 
> change the code, but do not slag it off on a public mailing list!

You think the developers are above criticism? A public forum is 
*exactly* where they should be aired. The creators came here & said 
"look what we've made, isn't it fantastic" & some of us have pointed out 
that, actually, no it isn't that good. For them to say "OK, we've made a 
mistake, why don't you fix it?" is arrogant. Developers should not be 
put on pedestals.

As has been pointed out there's a few reasons why it not good enough to 
be the default editor. Another being it's lack of relation information 
which will lead to them being split/deleted. There needs to be, at 
least, some kind of warning note that a selected way contains a relation.
The panning/background refresh speed has improved slightly in Firefox, 
but not sure if that's Id's or FF's doing.

I think it needs pointing out, yet again, that we are all volunteers, 
all putting in time & effort for the good of the project.

Dave F.

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