[HOT] iD tags changed? Re: Difficulty in communicating with iD users

[Suzan Reed]

I was shocked when I went into a Task using iD and found all the names of Roads had changed. There is no Unclassified Road anymore, and there isn’t even the designation “Road”. All my tracings have changed to designations I’ve never heard of in iD or JOSM. When I look in JOSM they are all there as Unclassified Roads as per the instructions in the Task, but in iD, they are completely different. I looked at other Tasks and these new tags are in iD in every task. 

Who changed the tags? How do we get them changed back so they match JOSM and all the information about OSM and HOT?

This isn’t good. 

New people who learn in iD won’t know how to do the Instructions in a task, and when they graduate to JOSM, they will have to learn all the tags over again. Plus! The new tags (minor road etc.) do not match any of the Wikis, learning tools in HOT or OSM. 

I am very disappointed to discover this change and hope the Powers will repair this and make iD tags match everything else. 

Suzan 


On Mar 4, 2016, at 6:03 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

The highway tags seen in JOSM are not apparently what an iD user sees.  I'm trying very hard to put this politely but how ... .... am I supposed to communicate with an iD user to say please think twice before using highway=motorway in an African village and how are they supposed to know what the African wiki road tags are and how they relate to iD?

And please don't suggest I use iD for anything including validation.

Thanks John