On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Seventy 7 <seven...@operamail.com> wrote:
> > > Tirkon wrote: > > > > I found some discussions within OSM, that it would make sense to > offer > > > > an OSM editor especially for beginners. To make it easy enough, they > > > > should not confuse the beginner with complicated stuff like relations > > > > and thus not show and support them. But does that make sense? > > No, quite the reverse. The use of relations should only increase over time, > but what is needed from the next generation of editors is to hide all of > this background database detail. > > For instance, I don't want to create a relation of type multipolygon, I > want to create an area; I don't want to create a relation of type route, I > want to add a way to a route and so on. > Excellently put. > Imagine a proper WYSIWYG editor - you would simply draw an island in a lake > and say "let it be grass" and the editor will do all the stuff with > multipolygons in the background (creating them if necessary) to make it so. > The user shouldn't need to know. Yes. I'd like very much, for instance, to be able to create a multipolygon lake using a paint (and eraser) tool. The editor should then be able to create the way(s) and put them into a multipolygon. This would make it much easier to trace lakes.
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