[josm-dev] Tabular edit of name tags

[Hans Schmidt]

Am 25.06.2013 23:22, schrieb Andrew Buck:
> This is a really interesting idea.  My one minor suggestion would be
> (unlike your screenshot) do not make this specific to the name:**
> field, but rather just have all the keys for the tags displayed
> directly on the top.  This could then be useful for other editing as
> well.  Not sure I can think of a use case right off hand, maybe
> wikipedia links, website url's, etc would be something like that.  But
> aside from that minor addendum that sounds like a great concept. 
> There is actually a plugin for a program called Protege which is used
> for creating owl ontologoies (the plugin is called matrix editor, or
> something like that) and that plugin works exactly like this and works
> great for filling in missing bits of info like you suggested.
>
> -AndrewBuck

Oh, great that you like it.

I guess if you have all the keys displayed, it might get a little bit
overwhelming and distracting. Maybe a setting would then be nice:

1. Edit only names
2. Edit everything
3. Customize the entries by writing the tags in the name field for
yourself (e.g. write in the column header “name” and “opening_hours” and
“operator” and “telephone number”) -> also save this as a template for
further use.

But I guess the name field should deserve a little bit of special
attention, because:
1. It would be nice if the column head would not only display the
language code, but rather the language in a written form (as in my
example), so that it is easier to understand. Just use this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes
2. It is redundant to show the “name” in every column: name:de, name:en,
name.:fr.