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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2014-04-02 19:37, Tobias Knerr wrote
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<pre wrap="">On 02.04.2014 19:25, Andy Mabbett wrote:
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<pre wrap="">(...) I don't understand the reason given:
This format seems not to be used much.
Too much work for too little gain.
not least since I specifically referred to "an hCard microformat or
some other contact metadata".
Was I unclear in my proposal?
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I don't think you were unclear. The response probably refers to the fact
that, unfortunately, very few business websites offer contact data in a
machine-readable format.
Therefore such a feature could only be used very rarely, making it hard
to justify the implementation effort.
However, all hope is not lost: This functionality would be ideal for a
JOSM plugin. And it's not unheard of that popular plugins later make it
into JOSM itself.
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Or, if a JOSM plugin is not your cup of tea, a small script, e.g.
perl or python, that would wget the Web page, extract the data
(regexp recommended), and write a simple *.OSM XML file containing
the tags. That file can be imported in a layer and copied to your
element with that brand new tag copy&paste.<br>
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BTW, I was more lucky with <a title="View ticket"
href="https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/9864">bug #9864</a>
that tacked my long dated, wontfixed request onto another complaint:
now, friends, you can edit/delete/add tags by right-clicking them in
Windows>Tags/Memberships. Right click the window header, use
Side buttons>Always hidden and enjoy.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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