[HOT] Difficulty in communicating with iD users

[Paul Norman]

On 2016-03-07 4:53 AM, Mikel Maron wrote:
> People, get a grip.
>
> There are a lot of cool ideas that have risen and re-risen in this 
> thread. Custom iD presets for HOT tasks, tighter coordination between 
> training guides and software release cycles, better management of tags 
> across OSM.
>
> HOT excels in emergencies, but this isn't one. The label "unclassified 
> road" has changed to "minor road". This is a good thing 
> (https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2916) and something we can 
> easily get our minds around.

Indeed - and it should make training people easier, not harder. 
https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/2916 was opened in response 
to a missing maps event where people were instructed to use 
highway=unclassified for unknown roads instead of highway=road.

iD has never had a one-to-one correspondence between preset titles and 
tag values, nor for that matter does JOSM. WIth translations it's fairly 
obvious that this can't be true for all languages. Additionally, iD is 
in en_US by default and OSM tags are approximately in en_GB, which is 
another source of differences between preset names and tags.
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