[josm-dev] addr mask / last tag takeover / dysfunctional when building=yes on way

[Florian Lohoff]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 11:46:27AM +0200, Dirk Stöcker wrote:
> >Aeh - Okay - Somebody draws thousands of buildings and tags it with
> >building=yes. Now i do site survey and add addresses - suddenly my
> >presets dont work -> Bug ...
> 
> The "defaults" do not work. This is the same as when one of the
> elements would have the tag with a value. In this case defaults
> would not be applied as well.
> 
> "Default" means "try to guess what user wants". Guessing should be
> used with care and this is what josm does.

But when pressing the addr preset its obvious that a pure building=yes
should be on the line as the preset does not touch/add/remove or interacts
with this tag. But refusing an obvious choice of offering the last
city/postcode/street the user entered is - oem - a strange decision.

Flo
-- 
Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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beschlossen, kommt für die nationale Energieversorgung zu abrupt.“
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