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

Matthias Julius lists at julius-net.net
Wed Oct 17 19:06:23 BST 2007


"Andy Robinson" <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> 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.

I havn't looked at the presets stuff, yet. So I might be wrong. But,
when selecting presets from a list it is probably easy to slip and hit
the wrong item. If you then have to go an clean up the inserted tags
manually that would not be very intuitive.

Matthias





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