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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Dirk Stöcker wrote:
> Release 4064 is used by approx 65% of people for about 2 months now and 
> you are the first complaining about this issue, so it can't be that 
> important.

As the person who originally introduced the "use_last_as_default" 
functionality to JOSM I feel that I must side with Florian here. That 
functionality was introduced precisely for addresses - at the time we 
thought it would be putting people off if they had to make extra moves 
to use the same post code or street setting for a number of addresses in 
a row.

At the time, buildings were very unusual to have so we didn't spend a 
minute thinking about it, but if buildings *had* been as common as they 
are now, and had been a prime target for using the address preset, we 
*certainly* would have made it so that it would be exempt from the 
"don't apply to tagged objects" rule - the whole purpose was to make it 
as easy as possible to record addresses, not to achieve clarity in the 
code or whatever ;)

I still think that "don't apply to tagged objects" is a good rule 
generally, and if there were cases where it accidentally not applied 
that it is good that the bug was fixed, but we'll probably have to find 
a way to make exceptions for certain presets lest they fail to do what 
they are intended for - make the mapper's life easier!

Bye
Frederik

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