[josm-dev] Unclosed ways

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Karl Newman wrote:

> Well, I was thinking you could mark it as a false positive using the
> validator_ignore key, which could be used by maplint or other validators to
> suppress warnings there, too. That key would only apply to a particular OSM
> entity, not for disabling a test globally.

At least I will not implement such stuff:

a) Private stuff has to be private and what you think ignorable others 
probably want to know. Every user must decide for himself.

b) The tags would be outdated really fast. The validator code changes and 
the reported warnings will be reduced and increased everytime forcing 
updates of the ignore stuff.

c) Ignore stuff becomes outdated really fast, as no editor cares for it 
and adapts the dependencies when changing elements. To have it right, it 
must be implemented as relation in many cases, which is pure overkill.

d) I'm against moving programm depending stuff into global databases. I 
even do not like these "osmarender:xxx" tags. Software problems should be 
fixed in software and not in a database.

Thought the idea of a local ignore list is fine. Would like to have it too 
:-)

Ciao
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