That's interesting Andy, thanks
Dan
2014-10-05 23:07 GMT+01:00 SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk:
With new editors though I sometimes think we forget how hard it is for
someone to start editing now in e.g. the centre of London compared to when
we experienced mappers started. Here, for
I'd echo Andy's comments, particularly about politely contacting all new
users in your neck of the woods.
My principal difficulty is in working out what people have done in each
changeset. The best tool we had for this - OWL - is now defunct. This let
you browse around the area looking at all
On 06/10/2014 11:30, Tom Chance wrote:
My principal difficulty is in working out what people have done in
each changeset. The best tool we had for this - OWL - is now defunct.
This let you browse around the area looking at all changesets, seeing
features that had been deleted / moved /
On 05/10/14 11:25, Andy Street wrote:
Simply refusing to delete seems rather unhelpful. I'd much prefer
the user to be presented with a dialog box that explains the problem in
simple terms before allowing them to either continue with the delete or
seek assistance. If the user requires assistance
On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 12:47:29 +0100
David Woolley for...@david-woolley.me.uk wrote:
Newbies will tend to do what is necessary to suppress the error
message, without thinking what they are doing. Alternatively, they
will reject the editor as one of the big problem with creating dumbed
down
I am trying to think how to reduce incidents that would cause alarm to users
like me, but there is no point in flagging new editors because it won’t help
them integrate into OSM.
I am not an expert in iD since I moved on from Potlatch, but Potlatch at least
denotes relations on ways, while iD
On 05/10/14 14:11, Lester Caine wrote:
Which sort of ties in with my constraints on relations.
If an edit is breaking something it's easy enough to say unable to
proceed because ... but ideally the API should be able to find a new
missing bit and add it into the relation? Only blocking
With new editors though I sometimes think we forget how hard it is for
someone to start editing now in e.g. the centre of London compared to
when we experienced mappers started. Here, for example (courtesy of
Martijn Van Exel's OSM Then and Now) is what the area I started
mapping in looked
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