Seems pretty sweet.<br><br>Even though it doesn't seem to be completely appropriate for a wizard, my first idea was a system like you describe, with user-modifiable presets, so it would fit the purpose.<br><br>I must admit when I first met OSM, I did like most and tried JOSM. I was somewhat rebuffed by its, IMHO, cumbersomeness, so I quickly sought something else, found Merkaartor, and decided to improve it (as I'm not a big fan of Java)<br>
<br>I will re-have a look at JOSM to see how it is implemented.<br><br>Thanks<br>- Chris -<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/7/14 Frederik Ramm <<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">frederik@remote.org</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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In the future, I plan to implement a "wizard mode" for tagging in Merkaartor, as I think that the openness of tagging might be frightening for newbies.<br>
This wizard would be dynamic based upon the "recommended" tagging practises in the "Map Features" wiki pages.<br>
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Are you familiar with the presets that JOSM uses? They are entirely controlled through an XML file. You should really have a look at it, it is quite flexible already, and people can create their own presets (e.g. special thematic stuff) although this is rarely used. There's even a new cool way of making them multi-lingual.<br>
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Here is the big default presets file:<br>
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<a href="http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk/presets/presets.xml" target="_blank">http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk/presets/presets.xml</a><br>
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I think it speaks for itself (at least if speaking to a programmer). Maybe you could think about supporting this format, *or* we could come up with something different that is then supported by both editors.<br>
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Bye<br>
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