Add preference: disable way dragging
jidanni opened this issue · comments
There is a preference
- Enable way node dragging
There should also be a preference
- Disable way dragging
Many people, in their entire lives, never intend to casually move entire shorelines, power lines, highways or whatever around. I guarantee you never in their lives. So it would be great for them to be able for them to turn it off.
Yes, sometimes one wants to move an entire building northwest 2 m, but not larger objects usually.
There is already the tag only mode for users that don't want to edit geometries but just add them.
We do want to edit geometries.
We want to
- add tagged nodes
- add ways
- move way nodes
- in fact everything, except:
moving an entire way.
For that we like iD's method of clicking the way, then in a menu, choosing "move".
It's much safer.
Thats why you have to select the way first.
Yes, we select the way to be able to individually drag its nodes.
E.g., refining a coarsely drawn shoreline to a more exact version.
But if we accidentally grab anywhere along it not at a "O" or "X" point
(nodes and halfway points), we end up moving the entire shoreline!
You are using an option that is intended for mouse/pen usage (that you were made aware of) and then moaning that it doesn't work that well when you don't use it with mouse/pen.
The only thing I recall about "mouse/pen" is there is a style called "pen round nodes".
Must be because they are smaller, like a tip of a pen.
Anyway, it never occurred to me that parts of Vespucci were only for use on cellphones with stuff attached to them, that one couldn't use with just one's fingers.
Anyway it works great with one's fingers....
Except one thing:
Too easy to move a way instead of the intended X or O point.
I'm saying you've got a $50,000 invention here: being able to move the points in a selected way one by one very conveniently.
It's only that there is one danger: moving the entire way, which many users would never want to do ever usually.
OK, but new users won't be looking in old release notes, so won't know that, and
As this may be problematic on small screen devices and when editing with fingers, this is by default turned off,
it isn't in fact problematic at all with fingers. What's problematic is accidentally moving entire ways.
Much more damaging than accidentally moving a single node. (So the default is: Disabled.)
But for moving entire ways, the default is: Enabled, with no way to turn it off.
Yes, it is not that bad: the user can always undo one step.
But if he moved an entire way a little, and didn't notice, and kept on editing (the same way), and maybe even saved his changes. Then fixing the mess is a lot of work.
Today just before uploading, I found I had moved some school halfway across the map .
Because it was all tangled up in the other edits, I had to delete everything I was about to upload because there was no way to undo / redo it cleanly.
It just makes it very dangerous to work offline. One might accrue tens of changes, but just one of these moved ways will make the whole mess very hard to straighten out, and one will just end up being forced to discard everything.
Closing because of constant trolling.