On 11/9/13 10:10 AM, Rob Nickerson wrote: > > There are also a lot of good reasons to not do this (as set out in my > email to talk-gb). I would argue that there are many more good reasons > not to do this, than there are reasons to do this. Just because we > have a UI issue, does not mean we should make it harder for people to > view these layers. And who decides whether it is "historic" of "no > value" to current mapping? > i think that actually there's a fair argument to be made that in a growing OSM just adding more stuff to the list of imagery is a bad plan, unless the editor guis are revised to handle it in a sensible manner (say, with sub menus or pull rights or something.)
but this is a wiki style project, which means that there's a herding cats problem. i don't doubt that in the long run something will get worked out. in fact, sub menus and pull rights are something that breaking out the imagery facilitates, so that's likely the path we'll end up on. but when you have many independent agents, all doing what they perceive to be best for the project, you will occasionally get these coordination issues. you need to recognize that this is probably a transitional phase, and not the ultimate resolution. richard
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