Global shared preset suggestions would be a wonderful addition. It will reduce typos and unneeded variations in tags. I would suggest a two fold weighted filter to limit the displayed list. A global or better country or area specific value, and a value for what is used in the open OSM file. The file contents being a higher weight. Anyone working on say hydro will not need motorway tags at the top of the list.<br>
<br>Regarding bots, perhaps a separate registration for bot accounts that can have more checks, or a review process. Basically a way to say this is not a human, and add methods to handle it differently on the server or community ends. <br>
<br>Ideally I would think the current registration for users plus one for normal user application authors, and a third for bots. Bots being the registration of an automated application or script for a given user.<br>In doing that it would be a lot easier to present more information to the bot user regarding behavior and review. Also setup sample runs against a dev server for review ect.<br clear="all">
Registering a bot being voluntary means there is not a good way to
enforce this though.<br><br>-- <br>Dale Puch<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Ian Dees <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian.dees@gmail.com">ian.dees@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Frederik Ramm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank">frederik@remote.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I think it would be a good idea to create a repository of such tagging<br>
standards where everyone can create new standards to his heart's<br>
content, and the user of an editor can then select one of the existing<br>
standards (or create a new one). - That would most likely create a<br>
situation in which a few popular tagging standards emerge, and a certain<br>
competition among these will help create something really good in the<br>
long run without ever having to have something "authoritative".<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I like this idea a lot, Frederik. I imagine something like a presets file that all editors could parse to display commonly-used key/value pairs. Each would have a description (optionally i18nized (so that "motorway" would describe a "highway" in the US and an actual "motorway" in the UK)) and perhaps could be auto-updated weekly from the planet file.</div>
<div><br></div><div>That way JOSM and Potlatch could present suggestions that are broader than just the currently-loaded OSM file (in JOSM's case) and some preset file (in Potlatch's case).</div><div><br></div><div>
Perhaps some simplified editor could only show the top X values for a given tag (ranked by use in the wild) while a more advanced editor could show a whole lot more.</div></div>
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