[josm-dev] Unclosed ways

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Matthias Julius wrote:

>>> But I also believe to improve the usefulness of the maplint layer it
>>> would be good to have a mechanism to ignore certain warnings.
>>
>> That assumes the ignore information can be used by different validation
>> tools. I don't think this is possible without lots of work.
>
> I can not comment on that as I don't have any clue about the internals
> of the validators.  But I would have thought that checking for the
> presence of a certain tag like validator:ignore=no_name should be
> straight forward since this is what validators do all the time.

No. It is
   validator:ignore_foo=nodeid
Or
   validator:ignore_bar=nodeid1;wayid2;noideid3

And that's full of problems when moving it to a database. You would need 
to use relations for it.

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