[josm-dev] Similarly named ways

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Nelson A. de Oliveira <naoliv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 2:43 AM, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com> wrote:
>> It would take only one tag.
>
> Overrides should not be included in OSM itself.
> Otherwise we will have a database with an ignore tag for JOSM, another
> for editor X, other for Y and so on.

While it's true that could result in one tag per editor, there are a
finite number of editors.

The only other alternative is a database maintained on the JOSM
servers, with the same data.
That is perhaps cleaner from an OSM data point of view, but quite
likely more fragile.

The dogmatic answer is don't pollute the OSM data space.  The
pragmatic answer might not take that too strictly.