[josm-dev] JOSM rendering improvements the last days - I'm guilty!

[Bodo Meissner]

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Ulf Lamping wrote, on 15.07.2008 01:00:

| But the most remarkable change I've done is to add some rules for
| stuff that *shouldn't* be used IMHO.
[...]

| All in all: If you find a "no parking sign on a bright yellow ground"
| or a bright red dashed line you probably may rethink your tag -

It is a good idea to do these checks. It helped me to find some nodes
with highway tags that probably have been added by accidentally adding
the node to a set of selected way segments.

But IMHO it would be better to add these checks to the validator plugin,
not to the rendering mechanism.
Reasons:
It is better to get a list of elements with errors/warnings than looking
around for these signs. In areas with many objects I have to zoom in to
see the signs, so I have to scroll around to find all these errors.
Instead of showind an icon only, the validator plugin could display a
message telling what exactly is wrong with the tags.
I can disable some of the checks in the validator plugin if I don't like
the warnings.


Bodo
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