[HOT] Difficulty in communicating with iD users

[john whelan]

Sounds intriguing, would you care to give a couple of examples where the
tag values shown in JOSM are not the ones in the OSM database?

Thanks John

On 8 March 2016 at 08:47, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

> 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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