[OSM-talk] Can you recommend good introduction to JOSM for 100% osm newbie?
Mateusz Konieczny
matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Mon Oct 5 12:44:02 UTC 2020
5 paź 2020, 12:19 od ajt1047 at gmail.com:
> On 05/10/2020 08:57, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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>> sent from a phone
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>>> On 5. Oct 2020, at 00:58, Michael Booth >>> <boothym at gmail.com> <mailto:boothym at gmail.com>>>> wrote:Not sure I'd recommend JOSM for a 100% OSM newbie unless there was a specific reason or feature required when editing.
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>> I would, because they will have to learn from scratch anyway, so why not starting with the most popular (by numbers of edits), most powerful, most versatile, closest to the community consensus and longest standing (i.e. most reliable that it will remain) editor?
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> Telling potential new contributors that they need to use JOSM to contribute to OSM will have two effects
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Telling them that they must use JOSM
and that they can use JOSM and
that in some cases JOSM is the best are different things.
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> All tools have their strengths and weaknesses and it makes sense to use the right tool for the job in each case.
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+1
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