[Potlatch-dev] POI features vs area features

[Steve Bennett]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Talking of which, I think it would be great at some point to resolve
> the "recognising existing data" from "suggesting to add the feature"
> dual roles of map_features. For example, I see nothing inherently
> wrong with recognising capital cities when you click on one - but I
> don't want them on the dnd panel since the need for adding more is
> vanishingly uncommon.

Agreed. Another common use case will be recognising
deprecated/deficient/alternative tagging schemes.

Oh, and while we're brainstorming about upcoming map_features
problems, anyone got a solution for highway=proposed, proposed=trunk?
>From a usability perspective, it would be nice for that state to be a
drop down on a tab, even though it totally changes the basic tag.

And in a similar vein, it would be nice to collapse the various types
of rail (spur, siding...) into properties of a rail line, rather than
top-level distinctions. But then, we need to decide how transparent
the editing should be: do we educate the user about the esoteric
intricacies of OSM tagging, or try and hide some of the ugliness?

Steve