On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:38:18 -0700 (PDT), Richard Fairhurst wrote: > [..] > Anyone can map anything in Potlatch, or JOSM, or Merkaartor, or their own > favourite editor, by creating the primitives manually, and adding tags, > using the standard UI. Of course they can. > > Yet this isn't always a sufficiently user-friendly way of creating them. > Sometimes, a special-purpose editor can make it more understandable for > newcomers, and quicker for experienced users. For example, both JOSM and > Potlatch have dedicated turn-restriction editors, which are much more > user-friendly than manually creating the relations and entering the members > in the appropriate roles.
Now it's clearer -- but a new question arises. Did the turn-restriction editors appear before -- or at the same time -- the tag was drafted/approved/voted on? I don't think so. I used turn restrictions long before JOSM had a friendly editor. I think you're putting it backwards. *I*, as a developer (not only OSM-related, I'm generally speaking) would do something that works first, *after* I would make it fancy. I still don't understand why to accept a new tag, there should be a fancy UI in $editors. > [..] > If you've thought about it, that's great. If you have suggestions for how it > might be implemented, that's great. But saying "I don't use Potlatch, so I > can't tell how advanced his support for relations is" reads, to me, as > "screw you, Potlatch guys, I expect you to do all the hard work in making it > easy for users". That wasn't my intention, sorry (I myself seldomly use P2 for quick editing, or when I'm not at home). > We simply don't have infinite resources to do this with every single > suggestion. Making OSM easy to edit is not the sole responsibility of three > people on the potlatch-dev mailing list, it's _everyone_'s responsibility. I agree, but not being part of the $editor development process, I can make my part when suggesting a new tag. And, for example, reusing a relation -- for which a nice UI might already exist -- is a first step. And that's not NIH syndrome -- which I've been accused to have by "someone" -- it's all the opposite. David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://deb.li/dapal `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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