[josm-dev] sac_scale in JOSM - RFC for change of translation

[Stefan]

Not that I'm qualified to comment on any change to josm. But this idea sounds quite absurd to me.

You want to increase quality by removing information? Are you sure? At best you will achieve a decrease in the sac_scale usage.

If any, add more information to josm, not less. If the description is misleading, then change the description. Add examples. Add links to the wiki. 

Relying on the users to actively search information because it is withhold from him on purpose? Doesn't sound encouraging to me.

Just my two cents ...



"Fichtennadel" <soskifub at gmail.com> schrieb:

>Dear readers of OSM tagging and josm-dev lists,
>
>after some discussion on german and italian mailing lists it has been
>proposed to change the display values of sac_scale in JOSM's path
>template
>to T1 ... T6 (see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:sac_scale for
>description,
>http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Unzahlige-Wege-mit-sac-scale-bzw-trail-visibility-die-komplett-falsch-eingetragen-ist-td5749700.htmlfor
>discussion in German).
>
>Reasoning behind this proposed change was the hope to motivate the
>mapper to
>read the wiki to get the meaning behind "T4" etc. instead of drawing
>quick
>and wrong conclusions out of the rather misleading textual values of
>"alpine_hiking" etc. So this would be shown in a similar way as
>tracktype
>(grade1-5) in the track template.
>Thus we hope to improve the quality of the sac_scale tag, which is in
>rather
>bad condition in some areas.
>
>Please comment if you object to this change JOSM's path template.
>
>Second question to josm-dev: Am I right in thinking that this can be
>completely done in launchpad (
>https://translations.launchpad.net/josm/trunk/+pots/josm/de/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=hiking
>)?
>
>Best regards,
> Georg
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