[josm-dev] Validator

[Dermot McNally]

2008/8/16 Dirk Stöcker <openstreetmap at dstoecker.de>:

> This information is shown in the ToolTip. You get this when waiting a
> short time over the error message.

Ah yes, so it is... It does force me to mouseover each violation,
though. For a large or detailed area, this is going to be very
impractical.

> Actually this is already implemented. It's only moved to the ToolTip for
> two reasons:
>
> a) There is so little space there in the Validator window

True - but to me, the existing top-level message isn't actually
useful, and could easily be replaced with the more specific message.
Furthermore, if I decide (as I am likely to) that it will be generally
acceptable for tertiary roads in my area not to have ref attributes, I
would value the ability to collapse and ignore a whole set of
violations. As it is, I'm going to have to search through a list of
acceptable violations to find the ones I really care about.

> b) When I change the generic error message, the valdition dialog will be
> filled with lots of different message types. This makes finding certain
> types more difficult.

Which types? As far as I can see, the only violations that will be
separated based on my suggestions are the ones that are already unlike
each other.

Dermot

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