[Potlatch-dev] "Designation" tag on most map features

[Steve Bennett]

Ah, ok, it's one of those "currently used by X region, but could be
used by others". Hmm. I wonder how we can better communicate this in
the interface. "free-form" tags are tough like that - because the
interface can't give any guidance at all.

Looking at the voting page (huge string of oppose votes) and the
discussion on the Tagging list (3-4 March 2011), it looks like there
are some pretty serious issues with it. Are you really sure this
should be exposed in the simple editor?

Steve

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> Steve Bennett wrote:
>>
>> Obviously 2) is easy to fix. But what about 1? Is it time we
>> implemented locale-specific map_features? IMHO it's incorrect to
>> display a region-specific tag like this to everyone in this way.
>
>
> designation= is not region-specific nor country-specific. It is a way of
> recording the formal official status of any object.
>
> cheers
> Richard
>
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