[josm-dev] Relation editor usability

ael law_ence.dev at ntlworld.com
Thu Dec 9 19:30:13 GMT 2010


Sorry if I am hijacking this thread, but on a related topic, I recently
wanted to tag a landuse area. Instead of the old simple area tag, I was
prompted to create a relation. 

The problem was I had no clue what sort of relation was being suggested,
there was no link or other help. I searched the wiki and no joy.

So I just aborted that and manually used the old type of tag.

My suspicion is that the idea of a relation was to allow annular rings
and the like, and that maybe roles like "inner" and "outer" were
expected. But I had no way of checking. 

For someone new to josm, it would be even more confusing. So before new
undocumented tags are introduced, there needs to be at least some
minimal help or guidance.

ael




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