On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 03:40:35PM +0000, Andy Allan wrote: > On 28 January 2013 14:20, Yohan Boniface <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > A short mail to introduce the little plugin Leaflet.EditInOSM [1], which add > > a control in Leaflet with links to edit the current view in JOSM, Potlatch > > or iD. > > Demo here: http://yohanboniface.github.com/Leaflet.EditInOSM/ > > Cool! > > In general I prefer directing people towards openstreetmap.org/edit , > rather than having a bunch of options or linking to instances/remote > control directly. The advantage of openstreetmap.org/edit is that the > user will have already chosen their favourite editor, and so you only > need one button. Additionally it's a better user experience when a new > user hasn't yet signed up to openstreetmap - it reduces confusion with > the JOSM / Merkartor remote control link not working, for example. And > it lets those who still prefer p1 to stick with it! :-) > > Obviously many other websites continue to have multiple links, so > you're not alone in making that decision. But as the number of editors > grows, and as there are plenty of people who don't use the most > popular (n) editors, I think that standardising on the > openstreetmap.org/edit approach is the better one.
That approach might work for in-browser editors, but I don't want to go to a different web page first before my JOSM is opened at the right place. I want to stay in the context of the web page where I am opening the editor from. Maybe we could make the editor setting for a user available through an API on osm.org, then every site can fetch this setting and directly do the right thing. Well, actually it is not that easy. I am almost never logged in to the main OSM site. About the only reason I log onto the site is to use the editor. But not my actual preferred editor (which is JOSM). I have set my preferred editor to Potlatch 1, because that is the easiest way to still access Potlatch 1, which I don't need that often, but I still need it for one thing, namely reviving deleted objects. So I don't actually want this "preferred" editor at all most of the time... Jochen -- Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
