On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 16:20, Peter Elderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Still most problems arise because ID edits damage routes. > iD used to damage routes in the past. After an update a couple of months ago it seems to now maintain the sorting of routes, even if you insert or delete elements. > The mappers aren't even aware of the problems, and even if they were, I > can't see how they could repair broken and unordered routes of several > hundreds up to several thousands of members with ID. > The way it used to be, I don't think they could repair unordered routes with only two members, using iD. That changed. There's still no automatic sort (that I've found) but you can manually re-order route members. And in some ways it makes tracing routes easier than jOSM when you have routes where ways are traversed more than once in the same direction. For those wondering, with long routes with segments of different lengths, the "zoom to" feature of jOSM and (new) iD is useful. But with ways that appear more than once, if you zoomed to a second (or third, or fourth) occurrence of a way in a route then jOSM reset your place in the list of ways to th first occurrence in the list, not the occurrence you were looking at. Not helpful when you're checking the connectivity of the whole route, especially if you didn't notice it happened. iD doesn't silently change where you are in the list when you zoom to the 100th way in the list just because that way is also in the list at the 37th position. I think ID does a fine job, all in all, but preserve, repair and maintain > route relations cannot be done with ID. > I haven't played with it enough to be sure, but it seems no longer to damage routes if you add or remove members, and you can re-order the members. I find the new functionality makes it easier to inspect routes than with jOSM. But maybe I haven't used a complex enough route as a test case, and in some cases it still damages routes. But it's definitely not as bad as it was. -- Paul
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