Back to the original question about iD being the default editor: Originally at least part of the thinking behind iD was to have a newbie-friendly editor [0]. As seen before and in this thread, more advanced users want to keep adding functionality, which will tend to make it less simple and friendly. This is understandable for any number of reasons (don't like Flash, know Potlatch 2 isn't being actively developed any longer, don't want to use JOSM, want uniform options across editors, etc).
Would it be make sense (and be possible) to have a super-basic version of iD be the default, and have people be able to opt-in to a more advanced version through their user preferences and/or the existing Edit tab dropdown? Maybe when you saved with the "basic" version, there could be a prompt to try the more advanced version of iD? This may be a pain technically or culturally (main issue being where do you draw the line? but really, would a total newbie need to edit multipolygons, or create turn restrictions, or load custom imagery?). Just thought I'd bring it up. Cheers, Brad [0] from the iD wiki page: "*iD* is an OpenStreetMap editor<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editor>programmed in JavaScript <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript> (usable directly in the browser) with the aims to be *simple* and *friendly*." On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Janko Mihelić <jan...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/8/19 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> > >> >> >> Relations are fragile and if they are almost hidden for the mapper a >> warning should be the minimal precaution (or alternatively don't let iD >> users do these kind of edits where relations are involved and would be >> damaged). >> > > A turn restriction issue was opened on ID Github page 9 months ago, and I > commented about preserving existing turn restrictions 5 months ago: > > https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/224#issuecomment-14895836 > > I still think preserving existing relations should be a priority. > > Janko > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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