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

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> 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!

Would it be a solution, when we have a "last_as_default=force", which 
overwrites the "don't apply to tagged objects" rule?

Ciao
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