[josm-dev] Combining ways - invalid tagging suggestions

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2010/3/23 NopMap <ekkehart at gmx.de>:
> Hi!
>
> I noted in 3094 that when you combine ways, JOSM by default suggests
> concatenating the tags with semicolon. The resulting tags are plain nonsense
> in some cases (highway=road;unclassified in my example), not meaningful in
> many cases and generally not supported by most software.
>
> As this is the default behaviour, it is annoying to the experienced user and
> it invites the newbie to do nonsensical tagging and make the ways disappear
> from all maps. I suggest to at least change the default to a single value
> tag.

I agree that concatenation here is annoying and suggest to force the
user to decide on one tag (or decide to concatenate) but not to use a
default. The default should be: cancel combine-action-

Cheers,
Martin