Richard Fairhurst schrieb: > Ulf Lamping wrote: >> There is *no* problem to add a changeset to an online editor. This >> is simply just another indication that the potlatch model of not >> having a "Save" button is the wrong way to go IMHO. > > For the record this isn't "the potlatch model". It's the Java applet model.
Well, after several years it now has become the potlatch model IMHO - no one would even understand what a JAVA applet model could be ;-) > Most of you kids are probably too young to remember the Java applet - > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Java_Applet . When I was a kid, there wasn't even JAVA ... > > In other words, Potlatch does it this way largely because its predecessor > did the same. If I were writing Potlatch from scratch I'd certainly have an > offline-then-save mode (probably default, but with the current behaviour > available optionally). But we are where we are and it isn't easy to > retrofit, I can perfectly imagine that this would be some "not trivial amount of effort" to spend. > largely because you have to do conflict management, and in a > newbie-friendly editor, it's important that said conflict management doesn't > suck in the way that conflict management always sucks. Patches are, of > course, always welcome. Well, to be honest I'm not convinced that conflict management is that important. I got only two or three conflicts in my 2-3 OSM years and I have edited the OSM data a lot (in Nürnberg, where other mappers are also active). That means roughly 1 conflict per year for me. Of course, your mileage may vary. Regards, ULFL _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
