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

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 10/17/07, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Well, *was* it a good idea or not ;-)? What were the reasons against?

Not sure, you bounced it back to me on April 25, reading the thread
I'm not sure if there were specific reasons. It looks like private
mail, so it wasn't archived.

> 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?

Well, for me that wasn't a consideration. The problem was if you had a
road and you selected an annotation for a road, the roadname would be
deleted. It's all about *preserving* previously entered data.
Currently presets for existing features are simply a quick way to lose
information.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/