[josm-dev] Common presets for OSM editors?

[Daniel Koć]

W dniu 19.06.2015 19:39, Richard Fairhurst napisał(a):

> I'd be keen to do so. Last year P2 adopted the editor-imagery-index 
> which
> Ian devised, and I don't see any reason not to do the same with tag 
> presets.
> 
> The one proviso is that sharing tag presets will be a bunch more 
> complicated
> than sharing imagery sources, because they're typically not just 
> presented
> as a simple list - there's a whole UI around them, and that UI differs 
> from
> editor to editor. But that's no reason not to give it a go.

Oh, and you are also the one who started iD development (that's what 
Wiki says =} ) - great! "Common set" makes sense only if there is more 
than one entity using it, so I'd like to know if you think it can be 
also used in iD?

And I'm still curious why JOSM developers didn't like the idea and if 
there's a possibility to reconsider it?

Here's why: I'm a translator of JOSM to Polish for some time and I find 
current state of presets to be kind of mess. They're very useful, 
however they have to be treated with care, because mappers tend to rely 
on the names. It is a serious task for one man to fix the translation of 
one editor and make it unambiguous and coherent - but I guess I made it 
to the level I think is sane (not perfect, though). But then we have 
also the second very important editor which I don't use, so it's harder 
for me to fix it. And we have a website with a great "?" (show objects 
data) button, which uses its own set of names. It would be good to use 
common names at least in those 3 important OSM sub-projects - and 
probably on Wiki too...

I could start translating/fixing the presets in iD now if there's no way 
to start sharing the presets in the reasonable timeframe. But I don't 
want to loose my time if this common set can be deployed in the short 
(or even medium) run. There are much more things I think are worth doing 
in OSM and if we decide to share this resource, I would take care of 
just one set, which would allow to have more coherency in the whole OSM 
and give me more time to contribute to other parts of this project.

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