2011/1/24 Steve Bennett <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm not quite sure why, but I really don't like JOSM. > > In my case I think it boils down to: > 1) Complicated, idiosyncratic user interface. My brain just doesn't > have space to learn new interfaces. Everything needs to behave the > same.
I guess that's simply habits, basically you need to remember 4 letters in josm, which is IMHO not too much if you plan to participate frequently to the project (a to add nodes, s to select, p to split ways and c to combine them) plus a few buttons (add tag, edit/create relation, change direction of way) > 2) Fragility. I tried fiddling with a plug in once and everything just broke. If you are annoyed by plugins that break everything (does indeed happen, but rarely), simply don't install them. Stuff that has proven generally useful and stable will usually get integrated in the main code basis. > 3) Poor performance. (On my environment anyway.) I see the same for potlatch on my environment, especially before you can edit I usually have to wait quite a bit for potlatch to download geometry (and if download hangs you would add already existing ways). If you don't hold half of a big city in the memory JOSM gets quite usable also on slower hardware (e.g. I find the performance sufficient to edit on a 250 EUR - netbook). cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
