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

[Christoph Eckert]

Hi,

> 1. When an item is selected, any existing tags on that item are
> propagated into the opened preset popup. At the moment the preset
> will overwrite everything unless you select on type the same details
> back in again. Wasted effort of course so I tend to use the +Add
> function rather than the presets if I need to add additional tags.

would be cool, yeah. But you then need a system that works on multiple 
selections (with possibly differing values) as well.

> 2. If the selected item has no tags then reuse the selected tags from
> the previously tagged item, (but not any text that was typed in on
> that item, eg the street name etc). A lot of mapping involves tagging
> similar features again and again. Effectively this would be a JOSM
> session overwrite of the "default value" attribute.

True. Given the sheer amount of highway types it's very annoying to 
scroll down to "residential" again and again.

Cheers,

ce