[josm-dev] Can I style by user in mappaint?

[Jiri Klement]

>The JOSM search box help lists 21 conditions, offers case
>(in)sensitiveness and optional regular expressions, still misses a
>simple logical AND and offers a myriad of possible combinations.

What do you mean by missing AND? Logical AND is imlicit so
"highway=tertiary oneway=yes" will search for highways that are both
tertiary and oneway. I've also added operator ? to make search pattern
compatible with mappaint, so "highway=tertiary oneway?" will search
for tertiary highways with oneway=yes, true, 1 or on. Maybe we should
add explicit and (& or AND) for clarity.

The mappaint rules are indeed simple, but have very limited
functionality. Though it looks like it's sufficient for most use
cases.

I'm not saying we should replace every k="highway" v="tertiary" with
p="highway=tertiary". The old k,v,b attributes can stay, just new
attribute - p (as search pattern) will be added.

>When I read the search help you should probably better say: the search
>is exposed to highly advanced users or developers ;-)

Can you be more specific here? The search function doesn't look that
difficult to me. What we can do is hide more advanced features from
the dialog, it can look scary at the first look. But otherwise I think
somebody who knows what logical AND and OR is should be able to fully
use the search function.

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Jiri