[josm-dev] Unclosed ways

[Karl Newman]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Dirk Stöcker <openstreetmap at dstoecker.de>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> Ciao
>

No, you're missing the point. It's just another tag. The
validator_ignore=no_name goes directly on the element that would otherwise
be flagged by the validator. It's metadata, which basically means, "yes, I
know there is something weird about this entity, but a human says it's
okay."

Karl