[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - historic

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 09:36 2022-11-04, Anne-Karoline Distel đã viết:
> The point I was trying to make is that in the iD editor, the field 
> "inscription" comes up as a default and is mis-used for descriptions. I 
> would like to see a way to prevent that.
> 
> Obviously, a signpost has an inscription, but that field maybe comes up 
> for signpost which I would presume is the primary key. I usually map 
> signposts/ guideposts in situ rather than in iD, so I don't know off the 
> top of my head what fields come up for it.

The Inscription field is only included in certain presets. The only 
non-historic=* presets that have this field are:

amenity=bench (hidden by default)
amenity=clock display=sundial
amenity=lounger
cemetery=grave
man_made=cross
man_made=obelisk
man_made=survey_point (hidden by default)
marker=*
tourism=artwork artwork_type=bust

It is also included in the preset for historic=*. However, that fallback 
preset only appears if the feature isn't tagged with anything else that 
matches a preset. It won't appear for example on a feature tagged 
historic=manor or a feature tagged building=detached historic=aircraft. 
It isn't included in the preset for tourism=information 
information=guidepost.

You can verify which fields are included in which presets by searching 
the id-tagging-schema repository. [1] As Mateusz said, please open an 
issue in this repository if you believe the field is included in any of 
these presets inappropriately. If you have evidence that users 
frequently confuse Inscription with Description, please include it in 
your bug report.

Off the top of my head, one solution could be to make Inscription an 
initially hidden field on some of these presets where an inscription is 
less likely, or to make Description an initially visible field alongside 
Inscription. As far as I can tell, there's nothing strictly limiting 
inscription=* to historic inscriptions, so I think it would be 
reasonable to use it on the traffic_sign=* node of a nonstandard sign 
[2] or on a historically unremarkable advertising=sign.

[1] https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/search?q=inscription
[2] 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sidewalk_regulatory_sign,_Mill_Street,_Peninsula,_Ohio.jpg

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