[OSM-dev] Best way to validate user input

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Fri Oct 31 17:07:27 GMT 2008


Ben Supnik wrote:

> - Put validation features into the existing editors (JOSM), etc.  Is 
> there existing infrastructure for this?  For example, I saw that one 
> site culls the whole-earth export for unofficial tags...does JOSM "know" 
> the approved schema and tell users when they haven't done what they 
> should?  Would adding this capability be appropriate?

There is no "approved schema" in OpenStreetMap.

Tom

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