[josm-dev] Tagging Presets - propagation with existing tags

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Wed Oct 17 18:11:05 BST 2007


Hi,

> >Especially, what did the patch do about tags that didn't match the
> >chosen preset, e.g. if something tagged waterway=river was now marked
> >a motorway through the use of a preset - did it then delete the
> >waterway tag properly?
> 
> Logically I'd say any tag that's already on an item which is not a key in
> the relevant preset should be left as is.

But would that not be very misleading, especially for novices which
are the main target audience for presets? ("I first erroneously
made this a railway, later clicked on motorway, why does it still show
up as railway...")?

Bye
Frederik

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