[josm-dev] Unclosed ways

[Karl Newman]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net>
wrote:

> 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
>

That's a nice idea, sort of in line with the @SuppressWarnings annotation in
Java but I think it should get its own key ("validator_ignore"="no_name;
overlapping_ways") instead of overloading the note key. It could be used for
all the validators.

Karl