[OSM-talk] Introducing SwiftAddress, an highly efficient way of collecting housenumbers

[Simon Poole]

Am 23.01.2021 um 22:01 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny via talk:
>
> ...
> Also, some diversity is useful. Otherwise "all developers work on JOSM 
> or iD"
> would be the optimal development strategy right now.
> ...

Well when the OSMF has completed its mobile support in iD that could 
actually very well be the outcome. JOSM is in slow decline, but will 
probably continue to make sense for some more years. Just to underline 
the later point: 2020 was the first year the main browser embedded 
editor (that is iD + Rapid) had more the 50% of JOSMs edit count.

The OSMF has naturally many times said something similar, but the full 
version is "we welcome diversity (as long as it takes place on 
somebodies elses payroll)". And nb, I completely agree that is what 
makes economic sense, but they should leave the euphemistic nonsense away.

> I maintain app for 1 person (StreetComplete fork) and I consider it 
> well spend time
> that is even time-efficient given editing that I am doing :)

Obviously a private app doesn't quite fit in to these considerations, 
and the impact is negligible in any case. There are other issues with 
private apps that fly under the radar, but they are not development 
related.

Simon

>     This is not an argument against change and improvements, but about
>     leaving ones ego aside and investing the time and effort in to
>     bettering existing applications. BTW just as I did when I decided
>     to invest time in to improving an existing app, instead of
>     creating a new one.
>
> BTW, thanks for that! Vespucci is really useful.
>
>     This doesn't apply just to editing software, it is (somewhat
>     driven by the nature of OSM and historically little central
>     software development) rampant all over the place, for example
>     notoriously geocoding software where there seems to be at leas a
>     couple of new entrants every year which then go away again just as
>     fast.
>
> And to be clear I agree that OSM ecosystem would benefit from
> more people going "lets improve existing project".
>
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