[josm-dev] Checking tags

[colliar]

Am 16.03.2015 um 09:21 schrieb Jochen Topf:
> It is good that people can invent new tags, but maybe the editors could show
> a warning if an unusual key/tag is used? 

There is already the info level warning about keys or values not in
presets. Maybe a new category for these warnings could help as right now
they are well hidden.

> And as useful the autocomplete feature
> of JOSM is, it is also problematic. Once you have a typo in a tag, JOSM will
> happily autocomplete that misspelled tag again and again.

There are already discussions about the order of autocompletion. I am
not happy the the current state, as well.

We could work with colours to give hints about the origin, e.g. for tags
from default preset, gray for other presets and blue for only in data.

> I am not sure myself how best to solve this. More warnings that people have
> to click through are not ideal either. Maybe little "warning" icons next to
> tags alerting the user that this is an unknown tag? Of course we need a list
> of known tags then...

See above, validator already knows about the keys and values of presets
and gives warning. The default mappaint style is not a validation layer
but should only render known tags and not simply keys.

Cheers colliar
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