[josm-dev] Unclosed ways

[Mark Williams]

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Bodo Meissner wrote:
> Dirk Stöcker wrote, on 15.07.2008 19:07:
> 
> | Assume you have a railway station and a village both called "Hubba". You
> | tag the with validator:ignore_name=true.
> 
> This check could be suppressed without referencing the other object.
> Simply tag _both_ elements with the appropriate ignore-tag. In this case
> the tag means "don't show _me_ if some other object has the same name"
> and not "don't show any object with duplicate name"
> 
> |
> | Now a new user adds the same village again. You wont be able to see this
> | change, as you disabled the whole checking.
> 
> This new object could be flagged by the validator assuming it has no
> ignore tag.
> 
> | Thus the only solutions is
> | for village: validator:ignore_name=id_of_railway_station (or other way
> | round).
> 
> | You see the problem with this?
> 
> In this special case I do not see a problem because the name is similar
> to an ID.
> 
> But it might be more difficult with other checks like crossing or
> overlapping ways.
> 
> Assuming I have a crossing of ways where I would like to ignore the
> crossing ways warning but I do not want to suppress it for every
> crossing of a specific way with any other way.
> 
> The only solution without a reference to the other object I can think of
> is to split the way and assign the tag only to a small segment similar
> to the bridge or tunnel tag. But this could lead to other problems,
> especially when other tests expect a closed way.
> 
> Maybe here we would need a relation with the "ignore crossing ways" tag
> that contains the two ways.
> 
> '

It would be simpler to just remember you're ignoring it, when we get to
this stage. I get 1/2 dozen roundabouts near me & a good few similar names.

I would quite like Validator to exclude place tags from similar names as
duplicate village names are pretty visible, also Foo Road
East/west/north/south.

Mark
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