[josm-dev] Multi-Select Preset

[Alan Mintz]

At 2010-12-20 16:30, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>    I have had a client asking me to add a new type of preset user 
> interface control for them, one where you can select multiple values from 
> a list and this then ends up in a tag with a comma-separated list. Like so:
>
><multiselect key="colour" text="Colour" values="red,blue,green,yellow" 
>default="" delete_if_empty="true" />
>
>The user can then e.g. select "red" and "yellow" which creates the tag 
>"colour=red,yellow".

It should be colour=red;yellow according to current usage.

I made some suggestions for expanding the existing preset syntax here: 
https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/4901


>The client would be ok with building this into JOSM proper. I am unsure - 
>of course I'll happily contribute the code but in OSM we don't really want 
>to encourage comma- (or semicolon-) separated tag values.

Really? They have become a fact of life, at least until/unless we make some 
significant tagging schema changes, which seemed more like hacks last time 
we discussed them.

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>