[josm-dev] Unclosed ways

[Matthias Julius]

Dirk Stöcker <openstreetmap at dstoecker.de> writes:

> Well, for sure the checks will produce false positives. That is always a 
> balance between false positives and false negatives (i.e. not reported 
> problems).

However, having a number of false positives can clutter up the list of
problems and make the whole process ineffective.

How about having a tag like "note=IGNORE <test>" to tell the validator
to ignore a specific false positive?

Matthias