[Talk-GB] On footpaths

[Adam Hoyle]

On 5 May 2011, at 23:07, Richard Fairhurst wrote:

> Adam Hoyle wrote:
>> I am a little confused (I get like that). The rather amazingly wonderful
>> potlatch 2 doesn't appear to put the designation stuff in when one tags 
>> a footpath or track etc. I will still go through and fix the paths I've 
>> added, but I was wondering if there was a reason it's not in potlatch 2
> 
> Thus far P2 doesn't have country-specific presets. Until it does, adding
> specific values for designation= would be counter-productive - people in
> Germany or Lithuania or Iraq or wherever would see a button and start adding
> "designation=public_footpath" without knowing what it meant, and we'd lose
> the usefulness of it.

ah, yes - that makes sense.

> When we add a facility for country-specific presets then we'll do stuff like
> that. Of course if you'd like to get involved with the programming that'd be
> great. ;)

well, I do speak actionscript, and with FDT it's a dream to write, so that's a distinct possibility. :-D

adam