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

[Andy Robinson]

Andy Robinson wrote:
>Sent: 17 October 2007 6:43 PM
>To: 'Frederik Ramm'
>Cc: josm-dev at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [josm-dev] Tagging Presets - propagation with existing tags
>
>Frederik Ramm [mailto:frederik at remote.org] wrote:
>>Sent: 17 October 2007 6:11 PM
>>To: Andy Robinson
>>Cc: 'Martijn van Oosterhout'; josm-dev at openstreetmap.org
>>Subject: Re: [josm-dev] Tagging Presets - propagation with existing tags
>>
>>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...")?
>>
>
>
>I see your point, but I think the example is extreme. It's very unlikely
>that many ways have a wholly inappropriate tag like that.
>
>And since I've been using presets since imi shoved them in I don't believe
>they are only for the novice. JOSM is a power user tool and needs to help
>power users edit quickly. For me presets do that.
>

Thinking a bit more about this I guess there is nothing to stop the preset
list being partly generated from the element tags in the first place. Click
on a preset button and it lists the items in the preset first followed by
any other tag data below. Would allow users to delete existing data and add
new data all from the same preset popup.

possible?

cheers

Andy