I created a repo to keep track of this here: https://github.com/osmlab/editor-presets
I understand Dirk and the JOSM team's position, so let's stop clogging up their inboxes and take further discussion to tickets on this repo? To get started, I like your suggestion, Daniel; let's start with the core, make it transformable to the existing editor preset styles, and then expand where needed. I'm indexing the existing formats here: https://github.com/osmlab/editor-presets/issues/1 On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Daniel Koć <daniel@koć.pl> wrote: > W dniu 22.06.2015 17:30, Dirk Stöcker napisał(a): > >> On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Daniel Koć wrote: >> >> And I'm still curious why JOSM developers didn't like the idea and if >>> there's a possibility to reconsider it? >>> >> >> There are many reasons, small and larger ones, but most of them result >> in the fact that no editor development team wants to give up their own >> infrastructure in favor of something else. We already had these >> > > Pity. ={ While I understand everybody wants her/his own way of doing > things, having a universal common "source" and maybe just transforming it > to local "destination" formats could be a way to go. We have so much > presets in JOSM today (and I speak of just the core ones), that when I want > to translate them, I need a few minutes each time to determine if there's > anything new - let alone to check all the options inside the presets - so > managing it gonna be more and more problematic. > > But also remember that the editors have different targets, so even if >> all above could be solved, the data probably never can match fully. >> > > I'm aware of it, but nobody said they have to use the full set - just like > nobody is using/rendering all the tags on Wiki, but it's still very useful > as a common source for picking what you like. The more resources can be > shared, the less effort spent on duplicating them. > > On the positive side - the problem is at least visible, so it's more > probable it will be resolved one day. > > -- > "The train is always on time / The trick is to be ready to put your bags > down" [A. Cohen] > > _______________________________________________ > josm-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev > _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
