[OSM-talk] iD and P2 new user errors - part 2

[SomeoneElse]

Previously (in 
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2013-August/067936.html) 
I had a quick count-up of new user errors in bits of GB that I'm 
familiar with for the month before iD became the default editor for most 
browsers.

I've done the same again (for the period 20/8/2013 to 13/9/2013), for 
most of which iD has been
the default editor for most new users.

                                  P2  iD  JOSM  Other (Wheelmap / Go 
Map! / POI+)
Made no newbie errors            15  55     2  4
Made at least one newbie error   20  43     0  4
Made more serious errors          1   3     1  0

One slight caveat with the numbers is that while it's usually possible 
to spot typical P2 "newbie errors" such as unjoined roads before they've 
rendered, it's less easy to do so with some iD errors, such as "not 
assigning a main tag to something that has been named" or the 
"accidental orthogonalisation" issue that can result from 
https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/542.  For example, 
http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/30953 (on the dev 
server) resulted in 
http://api06.dev.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/4295036579, but until 
they're rendered such issues are difficult to spot, so iD's "Made at 
least one newbie error" number may perhaps be slightly higher.  I'm sure 
it's not half as big again though, which it would need to be for iD's 
new user error rate to be the same as P2's.

Cheers,

Andy