[josm-dev] Checking tags

[Jochen Topf]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:51:12AM +0100, Paul Hartmann wrote:
> On 24.03.2015 09:50, Jochen Topf wrote:
> >This way we have:
> >"light green" means "we know that tag and it's accepted".
> 
> I would not require "accepted" but settle with "documented".
> 
> It should recognize complicated tags like
> healthcare:speciality=ophthalmology and parking:lane:both:parallel=on_street
> both in key and value, otherwise it would be pointless as a spellchecker. I
> guess a lot of wiki pages need to be adapted, so this information can be
> extracted. But there would be a value in that beyond the JOSM use.

If I learned one thing from years of working on taginfo is that there is no
correlation between "accepted", "documented", "often used" or anything like
that. This is a rather difficult task, but could certainly be useful, and as
you say, something "beyond the JOSM use", so maybe it should be discussed in a
larger forum. I think in the end it would come down to a few people coming up
with some criteria and creating such as list. Then the community can discuss
the criteria and discuss this list. But before somebody makes the effort, it is
all rather theoretical.

> >"grey" like now means any other tags but is actually a positive list of
> >     tags that are very common and/or docmented on the wiki etc.
> >"light yellow" looks suspicious, take extra care and re-check, is actually
> >     the list of all other tags we don't know anything about
> >"light red" means we know the tag is bad.

Maybe it is better to go forward with the grey/yellow/red part first, which
is somewhat easier, and add the "green" part later if and when we have such
a list.

Jochen
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