<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 14:55, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><br><div>Jun 4, 2020, 14:51 by <a href="mailto:pla16021@gmail.com" target="_blank">pla16021@gmail.com</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div>The author of iD is one of the mappers who doesn't like it. So much so that he<br></div><div>removed that option from the preset for phone=*. Unless you can persuade<br></div><div>him to change his mind (you can't) then you can forget using covered=* because<br></div><div>unless editors support it, few mappers will use it.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>iD is just one of editors.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>But the one that most newbies encounter first. And continue to use.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div> If there are good arguments for that decision it should be considered.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I can see his reasoning and agree with it in the general case. What I found</div><div>disturbing about this one is that there were only a handful of values and little</div><div>sign mappers were accidentally using inapplicable values. What I found even</div><div>more disturbing was him bypassing the tagging list.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>You're not going to change his mind<br></div><div>on that, so forget about using covered=*.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>If arguments are good one - then OK. But I see no reason to capitulate<br></div><div>and change tagging scheme just because currently deployed default editor<br></div><div>has a mistake in presets (like iD claiming that there are no paved or maintained highway=track)<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Unless you pay very close attention you don't notice when these changes are</div><div>introduced. I suspect iD does more to change tagging practises than this list</div><div>does.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>