[josm-dev] Checking tags

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Jochen Topf wrote:

> You can download the key lists from here:
> http://tmp.jochentopf.com/bdeda93e7dcc24f27e3822d4c95400b6/

I'm not convinced of that yet in the proposed form. E.g. the good list 
contains many keys, which we discard on upload. And other stuff which 
mainly comes from automatic imports, but has no real use to OSM.

For me a good list should really be good. This simply means documented and 
accepted. Essentially this boils down to usage in one of the major 
presets, the wiki or other highly accepted places. Everything else should 
be UNKNOWN, even when used a lot. Taginfo has this information, so could 
you compile a good list based on this instead of the database?

Also that means to get keys green someone needs to document them - 
something which sounds sensible to me :-)

> Here are my ideas how to show this to the user: Everywhere there is a list of
> tags and also in the tag edit dialog we can either colorcode the background of
> the fields (gree, yellow/gray/neutral, red) or show a colored border or we can
> show a warning icon next to the field. Just using the color is rather
> unintrusive and doesn't take valuable screen real estate. On the other hand,
> the user could hover or click on the icon to get additional info about whats
> going on.

Color coding sounds fine to me. Thought color must be light, otherwise 
people will drop anything which is not green.

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