[josm-dev] validator question, multipolygons

[Rolf Bode-Meyer]

2011/3/4 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:

Other things aside, as a user of JOSM have some comments.

> I'll give some examples for checks that I think are nannying too much, all
> these are active by default:
>
> * "unknown relation type" (warning) - JOSM should never assume to be in
> possession of a full list of allowed relation types!

That's annoying for public transport using the Oxomoa scheme which
seems unknown at least for stable JOSM. But in general I find it ok to
warn. I don't perceive "Unknown" as "Unknown as a whole" but "Unknown
to the JOSM validator". You should pay attention, that's all.

> * "unnamed ways" (warning) - I think it is perfectly normal to draw streets
> from aerial imagery and have no name for them.

This often saved me from uploading data where I forgot to ad name to
newly traced streets. I think it will do more good than bad. Again,
this is a warning only and only the user can decide.

I second that dialogues should be more modest and don't say "Data has
errors." if that isn't dead sure (OTOH, I myself never read the title
text anyway). I'd call it "Data may have issues".
I myself am closely paying attention to errors and warnings listed and
think the validator is a strong point of JOSM. But I also ignore stuff
after validating it myself.

Rolf